Morgellon disease does exist and is possibly related to GMOs
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For a long time for the Morgellon disease, the official medicine simply closed its eyes, considering it a myth or a delirium of crazy people. Morgellon's disease is characterized by strange unpleasant symptoms and until now its true causes remain unknown. But now we at least know that it really exists.
One of the popular stories tells that it all started after Mary Leightau once pulled out a strange fiber from the wound on the lip of her two-year-old son Drew. Later, the son began to complain about the appearance of many itchy wounds on the body, from which it was possible to get some white, blue or black threads. Drew also mentioned that he felt a terrible sensation, as if insects were crawling under the skin.
Mary passed a lot of doctors, including pediatricians, allergists, dermatologists, was not only urologists. However, all the consultations did not even give a hint of a diagnosis, let alone treatment. Mary realized that her son had a certain disease unknown to medicine. After another unsuccessful consultation with the infectious disease specialist, Mary decided to look for information on the Internet and found that there are thousands of people like her son. They are all looking for a cure for a disease called Morgellon's disease.
Characteristic, strange symptoms of the disease include severe itching, a feeling of crawling under the skin of some creatures, the appearance of abscesses, from which there are multicolored fibers or filaments. The wounds partially heal, leaving scars, but soon appear elsewhere.
For a long time, the medical community did not recognize this syndrome. It was believed that such damage can be caused by the patients themselves, who suffer from "delusional parasitosis" or "delusional infection". In other words, it was suspected that such people have a mental illness.
According to The Epoch Times with reference to NaturalNews, after numerous complaints to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), doctors decided to initiate research. In January 2008, the CDC awarded a grant of $ 300,000 to scientists for a 3-year study of the Morgellon disease. Then the scientists mistakenly concluded that there is no such disease or infectious lesion, and as a cause, nonsense is recognized, that is, a psychological disorder. No evidence or other evidence of an infectious, parasitic or any other process was found.
However, patients continued to complain and their number increased. There were suggestions that the Morgellon disease could be associated with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), modified with the help of microorganisms Agrobacterium. Suspected Lyme disease, immunodeficiency or environmental toxicity (chemical trays).
Soil bacteria of the genus Agrobacterium are able to transform plant cells with a special plasmid. If you have seen growths on the trunk of a tree, then these are the crown galls (tumors) caused by Agrobacterium. Therefore, these bacteria are often used in genetic engineering for product modifications and the creation of GMOs.
According to researchers from the University of New York, Agrobacterium is a universal machine for the transfer of genes and the creation of foreign proteins. Consequently, they can also change a person's DNA. Thus, Agrobacterium can potentially carry out horizontal DNA transfer and can be considered one of the probable causes of Morgellon's disease. But this is also a theory.
And finally, a new independent study, conducted in January 2012, sheds light on some details. According to a publication in the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, Morgelon's disease, in fact, is a real disease.
Based on comprehensive studies, including microfluorescence of the skin, hair, tissues, calluses and other material from patients, the researchers reported several interesting facts.
• In patients with Morgelone's disease, abnormal functioning of follicular keratinocytes is observed. Genetic errors in the DNA of hair follicle cells and skin have been recorded.
• Fibers in the wound have a unique floral composition and contain keratin (a structural skin protein), which means that the fibers were created by the human body. Due to immunohistological staining of antibodies, it became clear that the patient's filaments were produced by keratinocytes.
• Changes in keratinocytes (skin) are most likely caused by spirochaetosis, Lyme disease.
According to scientists, the fibers have a clearly biological nature. They are not implanted in the skin. Perhaps their origin can be due to cross-contamination of human DNA from GMOs. This new study opens the door to the recognition of the problem of Morgellon's disease and may contribute to the emergence of new necessary studies of the epigenetic causes of this disease.