Post by gezunked on Jul 24, 2008 8:06:51 GMT -5
This is my theory, its based on personal observation and the comments of others with Morgs. Unfortunatly none of it is based in fact cos as far as i can tell there are no facts about Morgs.
I'd appreciate any feedback on the theory either here or by PM.
I would appreciate if people would not respond to these obsevations with theories of conspiratorial motivations. I believe the realm of conspiracy is only worth exploring after the established research processes are exhausted. Because these processes remain largely in their infancy, that does not of itself indicate a conspiracy.
Believe me I often consider the unlikely and impossible, but such is the nature of the human mind. It wants explanantions and is prepared to connect non-existent dots if there is little evidence to provide a viable explanation.
It may be a personal thing, but I consider conspiracy theories aired publicly, loudly and visibly undermine the morgellons patient groups' credibility. Should the CDC determine that Morgellons is in fact DoP (and IMHO that's exactly what they have always intended - see even ive got a conspiracy theory!) the conspiracists have provided a permanant record of the extreme beliefs of Morgellons patients. Even if most of us dont holf these beliefs I suspect the reasonable voices would not be quoted.
Anyway, enough of internal politics, here's the theory.
Morgellons is a colony forming organism which binds to, infests or infects any fibrous material. It can happily move from plastic fibre to wood. paper, cotton and mammals. I think it's something to do with the tubule shape that it likes.
In humans it lives and spreads in the body unnoticed until it breaks out by way of areas of intense itching. Sometimes these itches will develop into lesions that are extremely difficult to heal. This may be because Morgellons attracts other micro-organisms to any site of broken skin and the other microbes may be just as important contributors the non-healing nature of the lesion. However Morgellons works symbioticly, it needs other organisms and some of them need it. Not this particular organism though.
The intense all of body 'fibreglass' itch signals the commencement of an infectious stage and from this point Morgellons is moving to the skins surface. Morgs fibres begin exuding from the skin, hence the pain, and these fibres are infectious. Infectious to everything, person, fabric, animals - you tell me what it cant infest or infect? As the fibres move from inside the body to the skin they infest the hair root and take over the hair as a tubular vehicle to exude fibres. Left undisturbed these fibres might 'grow' indefinetly but in the human host they are inevitably broken and dislodged and appear to the naked eye as a fibrous dust.
In this form the fibres float or 'fly' off the body by a static electric process to the next host for Morgellons. The new host, if animate, feels stings similar to the 'fibreglass' itch. This is the feeling of infection. Morgs then replicates and spreads through the body relatively unnoticed until an unknown trigger, perhaps overpopulation, causes it to move to the free floating infectious stage and by seeking new hosts the epidemic spreads.
As to where it comes from, I'm inclined to think that it was a natural orgasm with a very specific niche. Perhaps in a place like rotting vegetation on the floor of a rainforest somewhere or even a stagnant swamp. A combination of environmental factors; rising temperatures, environmental toxins, pollution, land clearing increased background radiation, even evolution could all have contributed to this mutating into the most successful organism on the planet.
Thanks for listening
I'd appreciate any feedback on the theory either here or by PM.
I would appreciate if people would not respond to these obsevations with theories of conspiratorial motivations. I believe the realm of conspiracy is only worth exploring after the established research processes are exhausted. Because these processes remain largely in their infancy, that does not of itself indicate a conspiracy.
Believe me I often consider the unlikely and impossible, but such is the nature of the human mind. It wants explanantions and is prepared to connect non-existent dots if there is little evidence to provide a viable explanation.
It may be a personal thing, but I consider conspiracy theories aired publicly, loudly and visibly undermine the morgellons patient groups' credibility. Should the CDC determine that Morgellons is in fact DoP (and IMHO that's exactly what they have always intended - see even ive got a conspiracy theory!) the conspiracists have provided a permanant record of the extreme beliefs of Morgellons patients. Even if most of us dont holf these beliefs I suspect the reasonable voices would not be quoted.
Anyway, enough of internal politics, here's the theory.
Morgellons is a colony forming organism which binds to, infests or infects any fibrous material. It can happily move from plastic fibre to wood. paper, cotton and mammals. I think it's something to do with the tubule shape that it likes.
In humans it lives and spreads in the body unnoticed until it breaks out by way of areas of intense itching. Sometimes these itches will develop into lesions that are extremely difficult to heal. This may be because Morgellons attracts other micro-organisms to any site of broken skin and the other microbes may be just as important contributors the non-healing nature of the lesion. However Morgellons works symbioticly, it needs other organisms and some of them need it. Not this particular organism though.
The intense all of body 'fibreglass' itch signals the commencement of an infectious stage and from this point Morgellons is moving to the skins surface. Morgs fibres begin exuding from the skin, hence the pain, and these fibres are infectious. Infectious to everything, person, fabric, animals - you tell me what it cant infest or infect? As the fibres move from inside the body to the skin they infest the hair root and take over the hair as a tubular vehicle to exude fibres. Left undisturbed these fibres might 'grow' indefinetly but in the human host they are inevitably broken and dislodged and appear to the naked eye as a fibrous dust.
In this form the fibres float or 'fly' off the body by a static electric process to the next host for Morgellons. The new host, if animate, feels stings similar to the 'fibreglass' itch. This is the feeling of infection. Morgs then replicates and spreads through the body relatively unnoticed until an unknown trigger, perhaps overpopulation, causes it to move to the free floating infectious stage and by seeking new hosts the epidemic spreads.
As to where it comes from, I'm inclined to think that it was a natural orgasm with a very specific niche. Perhaps in a place like rotting vegetation on the floor of a rainforest somewhere or even a stagnant swamp. A combination of environmental factors; rising temperatures, environmental toxins, pollution, land clearing increased background radiation, even evolution could all have contributed to this mutating into the most successful organism on the planet.
Thanks for listening