Paper - The Main Vector

[Kammy]

I'm going to be pulling together some of my writings and with permission from others to bring their quotes in, where they are pertinent, to paint a picture of what I believe has happened to cause and what is happening inside, this disease called Morgellons. Katinka has been a great support and I give her half the credit for helping us reach conclusions at a much quicker pace than we ever could have alone. Of course, many others here have participated, my thanks to all, for your support.

Morgellons is a very complicated disease and it may take years for our doctors and scientists to fully understand what has happened to us. That is why I started this thread here today. If there's one thing I can say that has any truth to it and if I help one person along the way, then, I have accomplished my mission.

Even though I put this thread in the theories and speculation, I believe you will find that most of what I write here will turn out to be true in the future. Of course, in a few areas, until certain aspects are proven, I can only speculate using common sense and what is known to exist to create good hypothesis.

I cannot say exactly how I know what I know, other than I am a highly developed spiritual being and I prayed for vision and I believe I received it, I prayed for vision - for all. I am using my God-given gift of foresight and language to hopefully benefit us all and my intention is to bring no harm. In the event that I am no longer here, I wanted to leave some sort chronicle, as I understand it, as to what I believe has happened from attempting to gather factual data and information through research and using the available scientific forums.

My research into this disease has gone full circle. I started in a place of suspecting a common household product based on an exact visual match of 'fibers' from a biofilm lesion under 100x magnification against this product.

The household product is toilet paper. It is not all brands. It is in particular a soft, fluffy brand. It is slick in texture. This slickness, I have good reason to believe is a silcon coating. There are many silicates and silicon is used in the production of paper, and also added to the rollers that the paper moves on. These various silcon bases, I believe, are creating or are a part of the biofilms in the Morgellons person. I base this statement on culturing toilet paper in Petri Dishes and comparing those biofilms with the biofilms that are produced under the same circumstances, using people with Morgellons, and their internal debris from lesions.

Through years of use of this particular toilet paper brand, I believe a build-up is occurring inside the human body. Then with the introduction of a fungus or two, the obvious signs of Morgellons occurs, in particular, Aspergillus niger. I believe A. niger is a common demoninator in all people with Morgellons, according to my and Katinka's research. And, possibly the addition of another fungus, which has not been identified, at this time.

At this time, I have not noticed that A. niger is present in the culture dishes of the toilet paper but appears to be present in the dishes of people. I also, have not cultured other household paper products, but will be doing so in the future. I suspect some other paper products from minimal microscopic inspection only.

The nature of the silcon biofilm appears to be like a womb that any pathogen can reproduce in. These biofilm appear to be several different colors, we do not know what determines the colors, at this time. These biofilm are not easily removed from the human body because of the silicon that's contained as part of their makeup. The biofilm acts as a protective coating, it has been seen surrounding all the different aspects of the Morgellons pathogens, the fungual, bacterial and parasitical.

The use of a particular brand of toilet paper is the base vector for Morgellons. We can state with certainty that a transmission has occured from this paper vector to people with Morgellons. Speculation on HOW this transmission from toilet paper to human occurs is gone into later, most likely through bleeding of some sort. Not to say that everyone who has a cut or an open skin area and used this brand of toilet paper has Morgellons nor has the "base" for Morgellons, this will be determined later by scientists.

There are possibly many factors, other than the one mentioned above, addition of fungi, to cause a person to have evident signs of Morgellons. We can only identify what is visually present in the toilet paper fiber dish against what is present in the human dish and do a visual comparison this way to identify what causes Morgellons, by a process of elimination. Without the use of sophisticated chemical analysis machinery to identify what is present in one dish versus what is absent in another, all of the contributing factors in common, cannot be stated at this time. We are also not sure what influences other paper products, that are using this same fiber making procedure have on people with Morgellons.

If you are sick, going through a treatment protocol or trying to get well, I recommend that you buy Organic toilet paper at your health food store until more is known.

Please feel free to stop in and ask questions and leave comments.

[Kammy]

YouTube - How Toilet Paper is Made

[Kammy]

YouTube - NANO TOILET PAPER

[Kammy]

After washing my hands 3 times with various different cleaners, peroxide, idodine, soap, and scrubbing under my fingernails. I then took a new roll of toilet paper that is suspect in adding some of the Morgellons pathogens, and shredded it over a Petri Dish by removing one ply from the other and shedding it leaving only particles in the dish. This dish was just removed from a sealed package that had been in the refrigerator. The Petri Dish was opened to allow the insertion of this material and then closed with its lid and turned upside to promote growth.

This is six day's growth. This experiment will be repeated several times. Cultured on 4/26/09, photographed on 5/2/09 at 100x.

Experiment 4.1 - This is toilet paper.

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[Kammy]

Paper Manufacturing





Tissue Machines

"Tissue Machines are very similar to paper machines in over-all process, but they are much smaller in size and have a different kind of dryer section. Tissue is what is used to make toilet paper, paper towels, napkins, etc. Like paper, tissue is made from a pulp material, but is more often recycled and much lower quality materials. It is made in large rolls and later in a separate process "converted" to its final product."

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Learn About Paper - Glossary

Pulping Processes:

There are three main types of puling processes: Groundwood pulp; Chemical; and Chemi-mechanical.

The groundwood pulping process grinds wood into pulp. Usually this involves taking a log and pressing it against a rotating surface to grind off small pieces. Typically a grinder is about 4 feet long. The groundwood pulp is then often cooked to soften it.

The chemical process involved cooking chips from a log in a hot bath of boiling caustic.

The chemi-mechanical process is a combination of the groundwood and chemical processes.

Stock:

Stock is a mixture of water and paper fiber. It can be made of wood pulp, cloth fiber, or a mixture of any cellulose and fibrous material. Most paper is made from wood pulp.

The first materials used to separate the layers of pulp slurry were made of very thin Tevlar, which is currently used in bullet-proof vests. This enabled a more precise movement of flexible separaters to create specific pressure differences in order to control the basis weight of each layer.

(*What's Tevlar made out of?)

Coating:

Bill blade coating refers to a way of coating paper and making that coating even and consistent Coated paper cannot come in contact with any cylinders, so it must be dried by hot air on the surface using a high speed air flow. This initially formed ripples on the surface. Excess was sometimes wiped off by a blade, skimming and smoothing the surface.

Tandem coating refers to a two stage process that coats both sides of the paper sheet.

Coaters:

Coaters apply separate coatings to paper after the paper sheet has been formed and dried.

Coatings are substances put on a finished sheet of paper. They are made in what is called color kitchens. Coaters can make a paper protected or shining, like magazine paper.

More than one coater can be used. Sometimes an initial coat needs to be put on to prepare the paper for a second coat, usually when the paper is porous and the final coat is an expensive substance... then an initial coat is used to prepare the paper so that less of the expensive coat is necessary.

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(*They're coating the paper on both sides and probablly the rollers are being coated, the paper is absorbing the * from the rollers, too?)

Rheology:

Rheology is the science of studying the friction between liquids. In papermaking, it is mainly used in studying the behavior of coatings.

Some of the questions rheology helps to answer are: Will the coating adhere or fall off? Will the coating be absorbed by the paper, requiring the paper to be precoated with another material? Will the coating spread or dry in the necessary time? Will one coating react with another coating in an unwanted way?

Secondary Paper:

Secondary paper refers to any recycled fibers, waste papers, or other sources of pulp and fiber that come from a previously created product or process.

Clarifiers:

Clarifiers remove unwanted material. Sometimes these materials are reused in a different part of the process, sometimes they are discarded.

There are two main types of clarifiers: flotation and sedimentary Flotation clarifiers often use very small bubbles, making the water milky, driving unwanted materials upward with the bubbles. Sedimentary clarifiers either decant the clear material off the top or they remove the heavier unwanted materials in a centrifuge.

Crystallography:

This is science of analyzing crystalline structure of materials. In the paper industry, it usually refers to the study of cellulose, which can have up to a 20-40% crystalline structure.

High crystalline structure means less swelling of the fibers.

Converting:

The converting process is the step in papermaking that takes the sheet as it comes off of the end of the paper machine and changes it into useable paper items. Through rewinding, cutting, creping, embossing, printing, coating and other process, the sheet is transformed into napkins, facial tissue, placemats, packaging, etc."

[Kammy]

CHEMICALS USED IN PULP & PAPER
MANUFACTURING AND COATING

List of Chemicals used in Pulp and Paper Making


(Silicate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A silicate is a compound containing an anion in which one or more central silicon atoms are surrounded by electronegative ligands.)

The Silicates and Salts/Crystals Used Listed Above:

Silicate of Magnesia

Natural Sulfate of Lime

Anthraquinone

Silicate of Magnesia

Hydrated Silicate of Alumina

Sodium Silicate

[Katinka]

Kammy, thank you for opening this thread.

As you know I am also strongly convinced that paper products such as toilet paper for example is a suspect in causing Morgellons Disease.
But not only..as for I think other aspects must be prevalent.
As our research has documented Asperigillus niger is also involved. This could be explained by environmental circumstances. It could be that this particular fungus remaining on the paper is due to air/fungus particles and gets triggered over haze after bathing or after taking a shower. Another combination is inhalation. We need additional tests on this.
Several studies and research how paper is produced, which components are used plus the integrated fungi and bacteria in the trees used for manufacturing has led to our conclusion that paper is ONE of the vectors of Morgellons Disease.
This particular fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium, I have found is a natural tree fungus which feeds on soil bacteria Agrobacterium. This fungus , which is the main "product" used for production of paper is attached to the Agrobacterium and seperation has been declared to be difficult.
Another suspect is the usage of organic fertilizers which contain silica. Agrobacterium is also used as natural pesticide.
As you mentioned and as our research verified is the fact that silicon is not only in many products we use daily but also in/on our food. This silicon leads to a build-up in our bodies and as we know cannot be easily metabolized through the bodies own immune response.
The excess amount of silicon in our bodies as we have seen in several pictures of Morgellons Sufferers (production of biofilm/goo) and as our research has confirmed the possibilty for this to be true.
Those "plastic" fibers we shed out of pores, wounds and/or hairfollicles could be particles of silicon, cellulose and fungus..all components of paper.
Scientists researching on Morgellons Disease have referred that the fibers contain not only cellulose but also fungus not to mention Agrobacterium found in 9 from 10 blood samples taken from Morgellons Sufferers.

The following posts will show these relationships....and are about to confirm our theory.

Katinka

[Katinka]

Here is another interesting suspect.
A fungus and it's relationship to Agrobacteria

Phanerochaete chrysosporium


Phanerochaete chrysosporium - MicrobeWiki



Phanerochaete chrysosporium is the model white rot fungus because of its specialized ability to degrade the abundant aromatic polymer lignin, while leaving the white cellulose nearly untouched.

Phanerochaete chrysosporium is a crust fungi, which forms flat fused reproductive fruiting bodies instead of the mushroom structure. This fungi exhibit an interesting pattern of septate hyphae, giving a stronger line of defense in times of distress. The hyphae network has some branching, with diameters ranging from 3-9 µm. At the ends of the hyphae rests chlamydospores, thick-walled spores varying from 50-60 µm. The conidiophore gives rise to round asexual blastoconidia, which are 6-9 µm in diameter.

Due to Phanerochaete chrysosporium sustainability at moderate to higher temperatures, specifically 40 degrees celcius, this white-rot fungus can be found in forests ranging from North America, to areas of Europe and in Iran.

Recent studies have revealed an association of a certain bacteria found in conjunction with this strain of fungi. Agrobacterium radiobacter was isolated as coexisting with the fungi, and very difficult to separate. [5] Discovery of how bacteria and fungi affect each other physiologically is yet to be conclusive, but further research could give further evidence of mutualism, and its affect on bioremdiation.

Not only is Phanerochaete chrysosporium useful because of its biodegradation of harmful chemicals by means of extracellular enzymes, its ability to leave pure white cellulose has been important in the industry of paper. Biopulping would cut out the use of machines to remove brown lignin, which this fungi does naturally, all the while bleaching the cellulose left behind that goes into the mass production of paper.




Agrobacteria:


Agrobacterium radiobacter

Agrobacterium radiobacter Strain K84 (114201) Fact Sheet | Pesticides | US EPA

The bacterium Agrobacterium radiobacter strain K84 occurs naturally in many types of soil and near plant roots. As a pesticide active ingredient, it is used in nurseries and greenhouses for controlling the closely related bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens, which causes crown gall disease in plants. No adverse effects are expected to humans, other non-target organisms, or the environment when pesticidal products containing Agrobacterium radiobacter strain K84 are applied.

No adverse effects are expected to humans....with other words...NOT SURE!!

Is it our Toiletpaper??

Katinka

[Katinka]

Another aspect of the "seeds" or "grains" we find could be tree pollen ovums and it's natural abilitiy to grow tubes in the insemination process.

THE POLLEN TUBE GROWTH TEST (PTGT)

research_ptgt

The pollen grain is used by plants to carry male sperm from one flower to another. Once transported to another flower (via bees or wind) the pollen lands on the style and grows a pollen tube, which grows down through the stigma to the ovary at the base of the flower. The sperm then travels down this pollen tube, where it can fertilise the eggs inside the ovary. The diagram below shows a few pollen grains, and the tubes they produce. (fig1) We use the growth of the pollen tube to tell us about the effect our formulations can have on living cells. The addition of a chemical formulation can slow the growth of the tube; the more formulation is added, the slower it grows.


Tobacco plants are commonly used in universities for research, where the pollen tube test was designed. The tobacco plants are grown at our site in New Plymouth, and the flowers are harvested




See the little knots? The fibers/threads we find seem always to have tied up knots? I have noticed this several times.
Katinka

[Katinka]

Pollen tube






Silica is used as an organic fertilizer..I assume for trees also. Is silica, agrobacterium, fungus the relationship to Morgellons Disease?? building fibers, spores, hyphae/threads, glossy looking, and seed looking objects? Like Dr.Wymore once said "we are turning into plants"? Could it be the "wood rot" attracting the bugs/insects?

Katinka