Hey Kritts - this very interesting! Good work, I this could be a definite link somehow? Hopefully, we'll eventually get some scientist to verify these findings and hypotheses to see if they 'hold water'?
From this report, Someone needs to be sure and enclose this data to present to the scientist that will eventually be looking at these new findings.
Here are quotes from Kritter's paper, I cut and pasted the sentences that I found most likely to help us:
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"Target Pests: Various ticks and beetles; root weevils, flies, gnats, thrips.
Many strains of Metarhizium anisopliae have been isolated worldwide from insects, nematodes, soil, river sediments, and decomposing organic material.
Products Directed Against Public Health Pests
EPA has created a list of pests of significant public health importance.* The list consists of pest species that can cause or transmit human disease, or can cause human discomfort or injury. Cockroaches, rats, ticks, and various microbes are on the list. To help protect the public's health, EPA requires pesticide products directed against listed pests to meet specific standards for effectiveness as well as for safety. Therefore, products containing Metarhizium anisopliae strain F52 must demonstrate effectiveness against ticks before EPA will grant a full registration that includes ticks as a target pest.
[* Microbes in or on living humans or other living animals are specifically excluded from this EPA list. These excluded microbes are regulated by FDA and not by EPA.]
Disclaimer:
No harm is expected to humans or the environment when pesticide products containing Metarhizium anisopliae strain F52 are used according to label instructions." (Now, who do you know reads labels?)
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We need to speak in 'laymen's' terms so that all of us laymen can understand what conclusions we're drawing from this incoming information. Here's my 'take' on this paper, Kritters, please correct me if I misunderstand?:
Metarhizium anisopliae is a pesticide made up from "insects, nematodes, soil, river sediments, and decomposing organic material." ? "MA" sounds as if it is a plausible explaination for what could a part of Morgellons Disease, from what Dr. Hildy is saying is making up the various particles that she's currently studying? A definite 'cocktail' too?
Kritters was explaining to me about how Lyme's Disease is transmitted, we have read where 47 out 50 Morgellons patients also tested postive for Lymes. From what I grasp, the human doesn't have to make contact with the tick in order to get Lymes.
These quotes are from:
Pharmaceutical Mushrooms- Lyme's Disease Information
"It (Lymes) is not thought to be transmitted by the common dog tick, although the fact that dogs regularly get Lyme's is an indication that this may prove to be a false assumption.
There is also evidence evolving that transmission from person to person through the bites of mosquitos, fleas and biting flies may also occur.
The number of cases of Lyme's is growing at a rate which tells science that there must be paths of infection other than the deer tick."
Well... logic says that if we don't have to make contact with the tick to contract Lymes - then do humans have to make contact with this "MA" Metarhizium anisopliae directly in order to contract it into our systems?
If "MA" has been introduced into these 7 listed critter's systems, is it possible that these critters then - can pass this "MA" onto another source in nature that humans DO come into contact with, and humans can contract "MA" indirectly that way?
SO - if a mosquito or biting fly has been in contact with Lymes AND "MA" by biting a previously infected human or animal and bites a new human victim - is it possible to transmit both of these harmful agents (and possibly more) to the new human?
It makes you wonder that the biting fly could be the "thing in common" for the 3 aspects of Morgellons that we're currently discussing here? The biting fly could lay its eggs, give you Lymes, and possibly relay the Metarhizium anisopliae cocktail into the human body with one bite?