Worrying infection showing up in Texas

Excerpted from Slice of Sci-fi.com


Have those black-oily aliens from the X-Files invaded Texas? Doctors puzzled over bizarre infection surfacing in South Texas

According to some medical news out of the southern part of that State one might think they have. Doctors are trying to find out what is causing a bizarre and mysterious infection that has surfaced there.

While the disease isn’t deadly it makes those who get it wish they were dead and that is no laughing matter. Called Morgellons Disease, those infected will break out with beads of black, tarry sweat and get lesions that never fully heal.

“Sometimes little black specks come out of the lesions and sometimes little spaghetti-like fibers,” stated one sufferer of the disorder.

Currently about 100 cases of this strange disorder have cropped up and been verified in the State with patient’s exhibiting a variety of bizarre symptoms and a great deal of pain.

Others complain of having overwhelming feelings like bugs are literally crawling under their skin.

The only course of treatment seems to be a regiment of antibiotics, pain meds and anti-parasitic remedies, but nothing seems to be 100 percent curative.

The pain and anguish is so intense that one patient took his own life to get relief from the horrendous symptoms.

So far, pathologists have failed to find any cause for the infection or how one contracts the disease.

For more information on Morgellons, visit the research foundation’s Web site at www.morgellons.org.