Morgellons disease is a controversial and poorly understood condition in which people believe they have unusual thread-like fibers under the skin. Someone with Morgellons disease may feel like ...

In 2004, Sue Laws began to itch. She found tiny red fibers all over her back. Within weeks, her skin broke out in lesions. She felt bugs crawling under her skin, and one day, she said, she pulled a ...

One day in 2003, Mary Leitao plucked a fiber that looked like dandelion fluff from a sore under her 2-year-old son's lip. Three pediatricians, three allergists, two dermatologists, and many ...

In 2012, 15 researchers from a range of medical fields tried to wipe a disease off the face of the earth with a stroke of the pen. The team, brought together by the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Morgellons disease causes black, white, red, or blue fibers to appear under the skin or protrude from it. People may also feel like something is crawling under their skin. The exact cause is unclear, ...

CDC scientists search for clues in desperate Morgellons sufferers. Jan. 25, 2012— -- A new study published today sheds light on Morgellons disease, a controversial condition marked by crawling ...

Sue Laws remembers the night it began. It was October 2004, and she had been working in the basement home office of her Gaithersburg, Md., brick rambler where she helps her husband run their tree ...

Envision a nightmare of horror, conspiracy, medical mystery, human suffering and cyberspace, and you might get a phenomenon that has come to be called Morgellons disease. In more than 5,000 households ...

Whatever it is — and most doctors believe it's purely delusional — Morgellons has become a grass-roots Web phenomenon. Google it, and nearly 162,000 references show up, many of them chock-full of ...

A fascinating new paper: Morgellons Disease, or Antipsychotic-Responsive Delusional Parasitosis, in an HIV Patient: Beliefs in The Age of the Internet “Mr. A” was a 43-year-old man...His most pressing ...

Deanna Odom was either delusional or she was suffering from a bizarre and devastating illness that doctors cannot treat. In December 2004 the 36-year-old mother of two teenagers started developing ...