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Synchronicity · Veteran Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 83

"What the heck is Morgellons?"

**Posted:** Fri May 26, 2006 5:09 pm

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Varin

If you take a look at the bottom of the page you linked to above it says

**Posted:** Fri May 26, 2006 5:16 pm

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Synchronicity · Veteran Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 83

And Update #2 says ...

UPDATEI II: We placed a call to the CDC press office and, while we await an "official" reply from a "qualified" press agent, the woman we spoke to in the press office had not heard of Morgellons, did not think the CDC had been made aware of the disease and stated that any prepared alert goes up on their website immediately. A search of the website found no mention of Morgellons. Stay tuned.

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Then ya got Update #3 ...

UPDATE III: CDC Communication Specialist Dan Rutz returned our call and has verified that Morgellons is a syndrome, as he refers to it, the CDC is looking into. The CDC has received numerous calls from those citing symptoms associated with what is being called Morgellons Disease and has, in fact, formed a group to explore the syndrome and define it. All angles from environmental to medial to psychological will be taken into consideration. Rutz says, based on information the CDC has collected to date, it's highly unlikely this syndrome was "invented" as some us originally thought. Whether Morgellons is being leveraged in some clandestine fashion to promote A Scanner Darkly is unclear bit if it is, it's sick, twisted and wrong.

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Real, or not? It sure seems to me that someone might have checked with the CDC *before* running the story on local news channels all over the country? How is it that the CDC press office is a bit confused?

Anyway, we'll see. Smile

**Posted:** Fri May 26, 2006 5:22 pm

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zerosignifier · Boot Joined: 08 Nov 2003 Posts: 50

Very real. Hate to say. It's unspeakably awful.

**Posted:** Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:26 pm

Addie · Guest

Now let's talk about the disease that makes people talk in fake French accents.

**Posted:** Thu Jun 08, 2006 1:32 am

Altoids

**Posted:** Thu Jun 08, 2006 1:54 am

Varin

Since this is definitely not an ARG, I'm going to move this thread to various & sundry Smile

**Posted:** Thu Jun 08, 2006 1:55 am

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