Sci-Fi mystery disease attacks the Southwest

Dear Friend,

Imagine this nightmare: your skin covered with sores that mysteriously sprout strange red, black, and blue fibers threads. This is accompanied by the unnerving sensation that your body is awash in ever-crawling insects. Now the bad news: you don't have to imagine it. It's real. It's a disease called Morgellons, and incidences of it are growing so rapidly that the Centers for Disease Control has commissioned a study to try and find out what it is and where it's coming from.

I don't need a study to tell you where it's coming from. It's coming from Third World countries, and it's catching a ride to the States with the countless thousands of illegal immigrants that flood across our borders every day.

There have been more than 100 reported cases of Morgellons in San Antonio alone. And unlike our politically correct government, I'm not afraid to tell you that this many cases so close to the Mexican border not only lends credence to the idea that this disease is real, but shows an undeniable correlation between the proximity of the outbreak and that area's large population of illegal immigrants from south of the border.

The CDC, however, has not yet made the connection between illegal immigrants and Morgellons. They've contracted Kaiser-Permanente to conduct a study to get a more precise definition of the disease and to see exactly how common it is. But mark my words: The study is set up to fail.

The tactics of the study are flawed. From 150 to 500 people will be studied – all of them volunteers drawn from Kaiser-Permanente's 3.4 million customers in Sacramento, San Francisco, and Fresno regions.

So in spite of the fact that there have been 100 reported cases of this ailment in Texas, Kaiser will be looking for this disease hundreds of miles north of the Mexico-California border. And they'll be looking at people who are already insured and in their records.

But by seeking only insured volunteers for the study, Kaiser-Permanente has effectively barred all illegal aliens from the sample group since they're not likely to step forward to be recognized for fear of being deported. Subjects will be given blood tests, skin exams… oh, and, psychological evaluations too.

Why on earth would a psych exam be necessary? Because a lot of so-called experts out there think that the whole thing is made-up. It boggles my mind that doctors can pooh- pooh the existence of this disease as psychological … yet there are visible skin lesions that sprout fibers! No doctor seems to be able to explain those away, and last time I checked, no mental disorder had any physical manifestation.

Hilariously, CDC officials actually agree that the study is "limited and won't give a complete picture of the problem." SO WHY CONDUCT THE STUDY IN THIS MANNER? You really can't make this stuff up. These are your tax dollars at work. Does this burn your behind as much as it burns mine?

With this kind of "research" being conducted, it's unlikely that they'll ever get to the bottom of Morgellons. To be sure, this disease is a mystery – but the fact that it IS a disease seems difficult to doubt. I'm not sure why there's such a resistance in the medical community to recognizing this disorder. Though I wouldn't put it past the arrogance of the medical community to deny Morgellons existence because they like to seem all– powerful: when you project yourself as having the answer to everything, it can be very awkward to have to publicly proclaim, "I don't know."

Whatever the reason – the rampant political correctness of the government or the hubris of the medical community – Morgellons will likely continue to spread. Clearly, no one in power feels the need to take it seriously.

Seeing through the CDC,

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

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