The following is a message sent to an American doctor submitting testimony to a DoVA subcommittee investigating Gulf War syndrome. The links leave no doubt that the involvement of onchocerciasis has been concealed.

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Would you please consider raising the issue of the absence of
screening for onchocerciasis with the DoVA? I have managed to get a
diagnosis and treatment in London, UK, but my American colleagues’
reasonable requests for diagnostic investigations are being ignored.

In 1980, onchocerciasis was reported by the ophthalmologist, probably
an American, from the hospital on the Khamis Mushayt airbase where
Stealth bombers were stationed during the 1991 Gulf War.
(scroll down to letter #7 at the following link)
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/329/7472/940-b#81939

Most residents of regions endemic for filarial infections have been
exposed, at least to some small extent.

Michael A Forgione, is Chief of Infectious Diseases at the hospital
on the Keesler Air Force Base at Biloxi in Mississippi.
http://www.keesler.af.mil/

He co-authored a paper describing onchocerciasis as an infection
affecting “multiple organ systems” which is much the same as
describing it as a “multisymptom illness”.
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1667.htm

“Background: Onchocerciasis is a chronic parasitic disease caused by
the filarial nematode Onchocerca volvulus. Infection affects multiple
organ systems . . . . . . . .”
Coauthor(s): Robert A Schwartz, MD, MPH, Professor and Head of
Dermatology, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics,
Professor of Pathology, Professor of Preventive Medicine and
Community Health, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School;
Rajendra Kapila, MD, MBBS, Associate Professor, Department of
Medicine, UMDNJ, New Jersey Medical School;
Michael A Forgione, Jr, MD, Chief of Infectious Diseases, Instructor,
Department of Medicine, Keesler Medical Center

The Air Force Logistics Management Agency (AFMLA) is a USAF
management think tank based at Maxwell AFB in Alabama. They report
directly to the head of Air Force logistics in the Pentagon.
http://www.aflma.hq.af.mil/

According to AFMLA, military health risk assessors identified
onchocerciasis as an endemic health risk prior to the deployment of
troops to Arabia in 1990. This prediction led, in part, to the
acknowledged overuse of pesticides during the conflict.
http://www.aflma.hq.af.mil/lgj/vol22_no2.pdf
(scroll down to the bottom of page 19 of the pdf to find)
“Personnel were also exposed to the effects of the desert
environment. Health hazards associated with the desert environment
vary. Hazards which particularly worried military health officials
were onchocerciasis (”river blindness”), bilharzias
(schistosomiasis), malaria and strangely enough, rabies. River
blindness was common in this theater and is caused when an individual
is bitten by the black fly—an insect smaller than a common housefly
that injects its larva into the bloodstream . . . . . . . .”

It therefore follows that the US military predicted that
onchocerciasis, presenting as multisymptom illness, would become
symptomatic in large numbers of deployed personnel at any time
following the required 18+ months incubation period. This is exactly
what happened.

Consequently, it is surprising that CDC commissioned Fukuda and co-
workers to investigate a “mystery illness” that some claimed was
afflicting Gulf War veterans, although it was already known that the
likely cause was onchocerciasis. Nevertheless, Fukuda and co-workers
failed to investigate a single veteran for onchocerciasis, that they
described as a “multisymptom illness” in the US Air Force veterans
they investigated.
http://jama.highwire.org/cgi/content/abstract/280/11/981
Fukuda K, Nisenbaum R, Stewart G, Thompson WW, Robin L, Washko RM, et
al. Chronic multisymptom illness affecting Air Force veterans of the
Gulf War. Journal of the American Medical Association 1998;280:981–8.

That the involvement of onchocerciasis in GWS has been ignored, or
even concealed, is not in question. The question is why? I submit
that it is reasonable for Americans to demand that both the USAF and
CDC account for themselves.

Please bring this problem to the attention of Congress.

Yours faithfully

no one really cares about your professional jargon. We all have them so mathmatical jargon doesnt impress many

Like a Venn diagram – normally it’s the intersection of various symptoms that defines a condition, but in the case of Morgellons, it’s the union – which gives you a huge potential population, and is not really a disease.

But it’s one that a particular group of people gravitate to. A strange attractor for the chaotic mind.

But it’s one that a particular group of people gravitate to. A strange attractor for the chaotic mind.

So the disease must be considered as dynamic process. I think only at the end phase it could considered as the static process. By the way the main cause of misdiagnosis is slow dynamics of some diseases(and faraway end static phase).

With the fully anamnesis research, symptom and clinical verifications(Believe me, very detailed research and verification).

>Does every who SAYS they have Morgellons have it? What the if criteria for someone
>to actually have Morgellons.

There are no any Morgellons in Ukraine or Russia. Here this list of symptoms have some other names like CFS, VSD and other.

The name doesn’t matter.

If you are interested i can give you some links to russian-speaking community.