Crazy Diseases
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Crazy Diseases
Morgellons disease
Type of Disease: Skin disorder
Crazy Because: The disease remains disputed; is it real?
Cure: ?
Sometimes you read about something so crazy that you just can’t tell if it’s real — such is the case with Morgellons disease, a disorder that expands the imagination. As it currently stands, the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) claims that “the cause of this condition is unknown, and the medical community has insufficient information to determine whether persons who identify themselves as having this condition have a common cause for their symptoms or share common risk factors.”
And it’s no wonder why experts remain baffled — the symptoms are strangely horrific. According to the Morgellons Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization, some of the crazy symptoms include skin lesions accompanied by pain or intense itching, fibrous material in and extending out of the lesions, crawling sensations like insects under the skin who are moving, stinging or biting, and joint and muscle pain, among others.
The disease is so bizarre that many physicians regard Morgellons disease as delusional parasitosis, but this opinion is neither conclusive nor unanimous.
Those affected with the disease, however, are deathly defiant against doubters. Former Oakland A’s pitcher Billy Koch claims to have the disease; in fact, it forced him to withdraw from baseball, and the former ace offered some choice words for the public in an interview with KTVU: “There’s no reasonable explanation for it. I’m not seeing things. l’m watching it happen. We’re pretty sane people,” Billy insisted of his family.
The CDC is currently conducting a large-scale investigation to once and for all define the existence of this bizarre and crazy disease.
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