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1517:; these findings are contradicted by the much larger studies conducted by the CDC. People usually self-diagnose Morgellons based on information from the internet and find support and confirmation in online communities of people with similar illness beliefs. In 2006, Waddell and Burke reported the influence of the internet on people self-diagnosed with Morgellons: "physicians are becoming more and more challenged by the many persons who attempt self-diagnosis on-line. In many cases, these attempts are well-intentioned, yet wrong, and a person's belief in some of these oftentimes unscientific sites online may preclude their trust in the evidence-based approaches and treatment recommendations of their physician." 1731: 1525:, a sociologist who has studied the Morgellons phenomenon, states that the "World Wide Web has become the incubator for mass delusion and it (Morgellons) seems to be a socially transmitted disease over the Internet." According to this hypothesis, people with delusions of parasitosis and other psychological disorders become convinced they have "Morgellons" after reading internet accounts of others with similar symptoms. This phenomenon is known as 1330:
can be disfiguring and disabling". Leitao stated that she initially hoped to receive information from scientists or physicians who might understand the problem, but instead, thousands of others contacted her describing their sores and fibers, as well as neurological symptoms, fatigue, muscle and joint pain, and other symptoms. The MRF claimed to have received self-identified reports of Morgellons from all 50
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said she long ago grew accustomed to being doubted by doctors whenever she sought help for her son, who is now seven and still suffering from recurring lesions. "They suggested that maybe I was neurotic," Leitao said. "They said they were not interested in seeing him because I had Munchausen Syndrome
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Leitao started the Morgellons Research Foundation (MRF) informally in 2002 and as an official non-profit in 2004. The MRF website states that its purpose is to raise awareness and funding for research into the proposed condition, described by the organization as a "poorly understood illness, which
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pediatrician with a reputation "for solving mystery cases", examined Leitao's son. Heldrich found nothing abnormal about the boy's skin, and wrote to the referring physician that "Leitao would benefit from a psychiatric evaluation and support", and registered his worry about Leitao's "use" of her
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In 2001, according to Leitao, her then-two-year-old son developed sores under his lip and began to complain of bugs. Leitao says she examined the sores with her son's toy microscope and discovered red, blue, black, and white fibers. She states that she took her son to see at least eight different
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Dermatologist Caroline Koblenzer specifically faults the Morgellons Research Foundation (MRF) website for misleading people: "Clearly, as more and more of our patients discover this site (MRF), there will be an ever greater waste of valuable time and resources on fruitless research into fibers,
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with sores that they believe contain fibers. Its presentation is very similar to delusional parasitosis, with the addition that people with the condition believe there are inanimate objects in their skin lesions. An active online community supports the notion that it is an infectious disease,
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Physician Fidel Vila-Rodriguez wrote in a 2008 editorial that the Internet promotes the spreading and supporting of "bizarre" disease beliefs because in online communities, "a belief is not considered delusional if it is accepted by other members of an individual's culture or subculture".
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spread via the internet and mass media, and "f this is the case, then Morgellons is one in a long line of weird diseases that have swept through populations, only to disappear without a trace once public concern subsides". The article draws parallels to several media-spread
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In May 2006, a CBS news segment on Morgellons aired in Southern California. The same day, the Los Angeles County Department of Health services issued a statement saying, "No credible medical or public health association has verified the existence or diagnosis of 'Morgellons
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article stated that Morgellons symptoms are well known and characterized in the context of other disorders, and that "widespread reports of the strange fibers date back" only a few years to when the MRF first described them on the Internet. The
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were present in the samples from the individuals examined and that the fibers found were likely cotton. The researchers concluded that the condition was "similar to more commonly recognized conditions such as delusional infestation".
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of her son's delusional parasitosis. She chose the name from a letter written by a mid-17th-century physician. Leitao and others involved in her Morgellons Research Foundation successfully lobbied members of the
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An active online community and publications "largely from a single group of investigators" have supported the notion that Morgellons is an infectious disease, and propose an association with
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Chertoff, Benjamin (June 2005). "Making their skin crawl: people with creepy symptoms find a diagnosis on the Internet. But are they jumping to conclusions?". Popular Mechanics. p. 60.
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in which individuals have sores that they believe contain fibrous material. Morgellons is not well understood, but the general medical consensus is that it is a form of
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The first article to propose Morgellons as a new disease in a scientific journal was a review article co-authored by members of the MRF and published in 2006 by the
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in skin samples in small numbers of patients; these findings are contradicted by much larger studies conducted by the CDC, which found skin samples mostly contained
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and 63% had evidence of clinically significant symptoms. They stated that 50% of the individuals had drugs in their systems, and 78% reported exposure to
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and 15 other countries, including Canada, the UK, Australia, and the Netherlands. It also claimed that it had been contacted by over 12,000 families.
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Leitao says that her son developed more sores, and more fibers continued to poke out of them. She and her husband, Edward Leitao, an
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doctors who were unable to find any disease, allergy, or anything unusual about her son's described symptoms. Fred Heldrich, a
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Moriarty N, Alam M, Kalus A, O'Connor K (December 2019). "Current understanding and approach to delusional infestation".
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article in 2007 also covered the phenomenon, noting that people are reporting similar symptoms in Europe and Australia.
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The Morgellons Research Foundation coordinated a mailing campaign via their website, in which thousands of people sent
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Vila-Rodriguez, Fidel; MacEwan, Bill G. (2008). "Delusional Parasitosis Facilitated by Web-Based Dissemination".
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in the samples collected from any individuals. Most materials collected from participants' skin were composed of
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who refused to see her son after reviewing his records, and suggested Leitao herself might have "
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In 2012, the Morgellons Research Foundation closed down and directed future inquiries to the
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Morgellons is poorly understood but the general medical consensus is that it is a form of
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Halvorson, CR (October 2012). "An approach to the evaluation of delusional infestation".
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assisted with pathology. In January 2012, the CDC released the results of the study.
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on January 16, 2008, and as the cover story of the January 20, 2008, issue of
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reported, "There have been no clinical studies" of Morgellons disease. A
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Koblenzer, Caroline S. (2006). "The challenge of Morgellons disease".
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says it "even received pop-culture attention" when it was featured on
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fluffs, irrelevant bacteria, and innocuous worms and insects." A 2005
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that came from cotton, with no evidence of infection or other causes.
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disputes that it is psychological, and proposes an association with
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reported that internet discussions about Morgellons include many
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In June 2007, the CDC started a website relating to Morgellons,
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Nunziato CA, Egeland BM, Gurman A, Henry SL (November 2021).
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was devoted to the subject. Morgellons was featured on
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son. Leitao last consulted an unnamed Johns Hopkins
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