I caught my particular version of morgellons from eating cooked grouper. It is quite likely that this fish contained ciguatera poison as I became violently ill from eating it. It also (I believe) contained parasites, more than one variety. Now with the latest input from a doctor who believes my current lesions look like those found in some herpes infections (on my back) I have been researching in yet another direction. I feel that the extreme tiredness and the illness I felt, sometimes still feel, did not just come from a reactivation of the herpes viruses to which I may have been exposed in my earlier years (chicken pox, EPV, cold sores). It sounds like a satisfactory theory to him, but somehow the way I felt at the time I came down with this, well old illnesses do not explain it sufficiently for me. This is what I found today:
Blackwell Synergy - J Fish Diseases, Volume 17 Issue 4 Page 417-427, July 1994 (Article Abstract)
A virus which is called
iridovirus is causing farmed grouper who had been exposed to become extremely lethargic. I wonder, what food the farmed fish had been fed? And it looks as if from the references sited in this abstract that this virus has been found in more than one type of fish. And now threatens amphibians worldwide. It evidently causes some internal lesions as the spleen, heart and kidney are effected. Big hmmm for me. Could this be going on in areas besides just fish? And amphibians?
Here is another statement from another page I find of interest:
"Iridoviruses have received attention because of the problems they pose to aquacultural practices and because of their potential use in the biological control of insect pests."
Iridoviruses
So far this virus is not found in man. Or is it? Can I find that Monsanto is vaguely connected to the use of
iridoviruses being used in not so normal ways? Yes, I can, but it is just all guess work really. Here is a copied sentence from a google book, sorry I cannot copy the page but will refer you to it here with a paragraph I copied the old fashioned way by typing:
A Textbook of Microbiology - Google Book Search
"In recent years attempts have been made to produce microbial insecticides. i.e. biopesticides Biopesticides are the preparations of chemical/microbial cells basically from bacteria, fungi and viruses for the killing of insect pests. The examples are
baculoviruses, iridoviruses, entomopox virus, Bacillus Theringiensis, B. popilliae, B. sphaericus, B. moritai and species of Aspergillus, Coelomomycos, Entomorphthora, Fusarium, Paecilomyces (Aizawa, 1982)"
Later on in this page transgenic cotton made by Monsanto is mentioned. So instead of spraying plants the cotton plant has genes inserted which secrete toxins lethal to insect predators of cotton (we saw much of this discussed in the Monsanto documentary). If different toxins such as those listed above are found in food products, either as as food we eat directly or from the fish or other animals fed these food products which we then eat (indirect exposure to viruses, bacteria, fungi), then who knows? And can we ever find out as it seems the waters are very muddied.
Here is something I found written in Spanish from a meeting which seems to have been held in Puerto Rico. I am only referring to a very small segment in this document:
INFORME ANUAL DE LA EMPRESA DE HORTALIZAS DEL COLEGIO DE CIENCIAS AGRCOLAS
Proyecto (Project) ZTS-07 -
IRIDOVIRUSES AS BIOCONTROL AGENTS OF INSECTS
Conseguir un virus que contole a Diaprepes abreviattus, podria reducir las perdidas en citricas y vegetales ocasionadas por este insecto.
Translated:
Getting a virus to contol Diaprepes abreviattus, could reduce losses in citrus and vegetables caused by this insect.
Has a virus such as iridovirus now been able to make the jump to humans? Gee, I don't know, as lately I get quite sleepy and often too tired to think. Could it have been something I ate? Just as some other biopesticides are no longer sprayed is this one which has now been inserted into food plants? Or fed to food animals? I don't know. Just a thought though. I am left wondering why the doctor I saw was so adamant it was all a virus.