Altho I didn't find anything about morgs being a genetic disease having something to do with chromosomes sue... I found some really great news about it from within the NIH site itself.
The National Institute of Health has FINALLY listed allowable qualifiers and factors for physicians to use when treating someone with Morgellons. In other words, they will now have a list to refer to for the different factors and procedures to be considered when seeing someone with Morgellons. With the NIH year end changes, they have (again, FINALLY) updated Morgellons and listed it as a disease in itself now guys!
I copied all the new descriptor data (which includes everything) for physicians to have to use now... it's interesting.
Morgellons Disease
An unexplained illness which is characterized by skin manifestations including non-healing lesions, itching, and the appearance of fibers. There appears to be a strong association with Lyme Disease.
Qualifying factors...
1. In the blood
Used for the presence or analysis of substances in the blood; also for examination of, or changes in, the blood in disease states. It excludes serodiagnosis, for which the subheading "diagnosis" is used, and serology, for which "immunology" is used.
2. Cerebrospinal fluid
Used for the presence or analysis of substances in the cerebrospinal fluid; also for examination of or changes in cerebrospinal fluid in disease states.
3. Chemically induced
Used for biological phenomena, diseases, syndromes, congenital abnormalities, or symptoms caused by endogenous or exogenous substances.
4. Classification
Used for taxonomic or other systematic or hierarchical classification systems.
5. Congenital
Used with disease headings to indicate those conditions existing at, and usually before, birth. It excludes morphologic abnormalities and birth injuries, for which "abnormalities" and "injuries" are used.
6. Complications
Used with diseases to indicate conditions that co-exist or follow, i.e., co-existing diseases, complications, or sequelae.
7. Diet therapy
Used with disease headings for dietary and nutritional management of the disease. The concept does not include vitamin or mineral supplements, for which "drug therapy" may be used.
8. Diagnosis
Used with diseases for all aspects of diagnosis, including examination, differential diagnosis and prognosis; excludes mass screening for which "prevention & control" is used. Excludes radiographic diagnosis for which "radiography" is used; excludes scintigraphic diagnosis for which "radionuclide imaging" is used; excludes ultrasonic diagnosis for which "ultrasonography" is used.
9. Drug therapy
Used with disease headings for the treatment of disease by the administration of drugs, chemicals, and antibiotics. For diet therapy and radiotherapy, use specific subheadings. Excludes immunotherapy for which "therapy" is used.
10. Economics
Used for the economic aspects of any subject, as well as for all aspects of financial management. It includes the raising or providing of funds.
11. Ethnology
Used with diseases for ethnic, cultural, or anthropological aspects, and with geographic headings to indicate the place of origin of a group of people.
12. Embryology
Used with organs, regions, and animal headings for embryologic and fetal development. It is used also with diseases for embryologic factors contributing to postnatal disorders.
13. Enzymology
Used with organisms, except vertebrates, and with organs and tissues. It is also used with diseases for enzymes during the course of the disease, but excludes diagnostic enzyme tests, for which "diagnosis" is used.
14. Epidemiology
Used with human and veterinary diseases for the distribution of disease, factors which cause disease, and the attributes of disease in defined populations; includes incidence, frequency, prevalence, endemic and epidemic outbreaks; also surveys and estimates of morbidity in geographic areas and in specified populations. Used also with geographical headings for the location of epidemiologic aspects of a disease. Excludes mortality for which "mortality" is used.
15. Etiology
Used with diseases for causative agents including microorganisms and includes environmental and social factors and personal habits as contributing factors. It includes pathogenesis.
16. Genetics
Used for mechanisms of heredity and the genetics of organisms, for the genetic basis of normal and pathologic states, and for the genetic aspects of endogenous chemicals. It includes biochemical and molecular influence on genetic material.
17. History
Used for the historical aspects of any subject. It includes brief historical notes but excludes case histories.
18. Immunology
Used for immunologic studies of tissues, organs, microorganisms, fungi, viruses, and animals. It includes immunologic aspects of diseases but not immunologic procedures used for diagnostic, preventive, or therapeutic purposes, for which "diagnosis", "prevention & control", or "therapy" are used. The concept is also used for chemicals as antigens or haptens.
19. Metabolism
Used with organs, cells and subcellular fractions, organisms, and diseases for biochemical changes and metabolism. It is used also with drugs and chemicals for catabolic changes (breakdown of complex molecules into simpler ones). For anabolic processes (conversion of small molecules into large), BIOSYNTHESIS is used. For enzymology, pharmacokinetics, and secretion use the specific subheadings.
20. Microbiology
Used with organs, animals, and higher plants and with diseases for microbiologic studies. For parasites, "parasitology" is used; for viruses, "virology" is used.
21. Mortality
Used with human and veterinary diseases for mortality statistics. For deaths resulting from various procedures statistically but for a death resulting in a specific case, use FATAL OUTCOME, not / mortality.
22. Nursing
Used with diseases for nursing care and techniques in their management. It includes the nursing role in diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive procedures.
23. Pathology
Used for organ, tissue, or cell structure in disease states.
24. Prevention and Control
Used with disease headings for increasing human or animal resistance against disease (e.g., immunization), for control of transmission agents, for prevention and control of environmental hazards, or for prevention and control of social factors leading to disease. It includes preventive measures in individual cases.
25. Physiopathology
Used with organs and diseases for disordered function in disease states.
26. Parasitology
Used with animals, higher plants, organs, and diseases for parasitic factors. In diseases, it is not used if the parasitic involvement is implicit in the diagnosis.
27. Psychology
Used with non-psychiatric diseases, techniques, and named groups for psychologic, psychiatric, psychosomatic, psychosocial, behavioral, and emotional aspects, and with psychiatric disease for psychologic aspects; used also with animal terms for animal behavior and psychology.
28. Radiography
Used with organs, regions, and diseases for x-ray examinations. It does not include radionuclide imaging for which "radionuclide imaging" is used.
29. Rehabilitation
Used with diseases and surgical procedures for restoration of function of the individual.
30. Radionuclide Imaging
Used for radionuclide imaging of any anatomical structure, or for the diagnosis of disease.
31. Radiotherapy
Used with disease headings for the therapeutic use of ionizing and nonionizing radiation. It includes the use of radioisotope therapy.
32. Surgery
Used for operative procedures on organs, regions, or tissues in the treatment of diseases, including tissue section by lasers. It excludes transplantation, for which "transplantation" is used.
33. Therapy
Used with diseases for therapeutic interventions except drug therapy, diet therapy, radiotherapy, and surgery, for which specific subheadings exist. The concept is also used for articles and books dealing with multiple therapies.
34. Transmission
Used with diseases for studies of the modes of transmission.
35. Urine
Used for the presence or analysis of substances in the urine, and also for the examination of, or changes in, the urine in disease.
36. Ultrasonography
Used with organs and regions for ultrasonic imaging and with diseases for ultrasonic diagnosis. Does not include ultrasonic therapy.
37. Veterinary (happy to know they know animals have gotten this too)
Used for naturally occurring diseases in animals, or for diagnostic, preventive, or therapeutic procedures used in veterinary medicine.
38. Virology
Used with organs, animals, and higher plants and with diseases for virologic studies. For bacteria, rickettsia, and fungi, "microbiology" is used; for parasites, "parasitology" is used.
I only copied the scope notes, but you can click on each allowable qualifier for even more info with annotation notes from here...
www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/mesh/2009/MB_cgiMaybe now we won't be treated the way we have been for so long.
I love you ~~ bannanny