Morgellons Watch

There are a surprising number of Morgellons photos on the web. One thing that is clear from viewing all these photos is that they do not all have the same thing.

(If you are looking for some free Morgellons-style photos to illustrate an article, then there are several here)

Morgellons.org – (the site that started it all)

http://morgellons.org/images.htm
Scabs and lesion scraping with cloth fibers (probably cotton) embedded in them. Two stained photos of what looks like paper fibers. Some SEM photos of slightly crusted skin with a few fibers seeming to poke through, probably vellus hairs and stray paper fibers.

Ron Wells – (Web master of the MRF)
http://www.rewells.com/Ordeal/page2.htm (via Archive.org)
Several close-ups of a largish sebum plug (hardened zit or blackhead), from his nose.

Ant Guy – (Administrator at Lymebusters)
http://antguy.50megs.com/photo.html
Various – sebum plugs, dead insects, tufts of fur, flakes of skin,

Carrie, Orion and Patti from Lymebusters http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/lymebusters/my_photos
A mixed bag – some poor quality microscope pictures of nothing. Some hairs and fibers (described as filaria – parasitic baby worms). Scabs. “Amber fluid” (sebum). Fungal toenails.

Cherokee Chas – Ex-Chairman of the MRF
http://www.texramp.net/~chazman/MorgImgs.htm
All scabs with clothing fibers embedding in them.

Ruth – Stormsky22000
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/stormysky22000/my_photos
Dead insects. Hairy scabs. Congealed blood and fluids with fibers. Sebum plugs. Possible colon polyp or worm.
Uk Guy
http://morgellons.shutterfly.com/action/
Sebum plugs, hairballs, loose fibers, and combinations of the above.

Ann Dill (recently featured on good Morning America) http://annedill.piczo.com/?cr=1&rfm=y
Huge page with lots of photos. Mostly skin flakes, coagulated blood, possibly mixed blood/sebum.

Another Pattie
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/pattismorgellons/my_photos
Plant Material. Tissue fibers. Sebum fragments. Fuzz balls. Things “from urine” !

Since I posted the above list, I’ve been seeing if I could identify and replicate some of these photos. Here’s some results:

Tea-tree objects identified

Fuzzballs
Morgellons photos (fibers in a lesion)
Objects emerging from lesion on childs lip look like kleenex fibers