Morgellons Mystery Disease

CDC readies report on mysterious disease called Morgellons.
The Washington Post (10/31, Schulte) reports, "CDC experts are preparing the final draft of their report" on Morgellons, or what the agency "calls unexplained dermopathy." The report follows lobbying efforts by sufferers of the "strange medical condition" as well as by "then-Sen. Barack Obama," who wrote to the agency "demanding an investigation." Some "years ago, a handful of scientists thought the so-called fiber disease could be the result of infection by some strange new bacterium, parasite or fungus," but "almost all of them have dropped their research," the Post notes. CDC experts "hope to submit for publication in a peer-reviewed scientific journal sometime in early 2011."