Most horrifying thing I have heard. Not Joking

[spearmint]

50% of victims have lyme disease. Do not go in the woods. Fibrous tentacles coming from painful lesions.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/global-inclu...30524.html

[Ken Sp.]

Yea--I read that late in the week-SCAREY-and the earlier post asking how far Ticks can jump made me think of it---but thta would have freaked the poster even more.

[PeterB]

Yuck. Sounds to me like some sort of commensal or co-parasitic organism, living inside the ticks-- which would explain why 50% of the people also have Lyme Disease...

[ztirffritz]

I'm afraid to read that link...as far as I know, I wasn't bitten last night.

[Grateful11]

My Dad had it but found out in time. The tick was one of
those really small ones and had buried itself in the inner
part of his thigh and you couldn't see it. Itching and a
little redness was the only signs he had of the tick.

[kj]

"House" pulled a tick out of a lady's vagina. It was killing her. kj.

[Stephanie]

I heard about that over a year ago. It was a big story in the newspaper here (I guess lots of cases in NM).

[MGS_forgot_password]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgellons

Most doctors think it's a made-up disease.

[PeterB]

MGS, I'm not convinced. Could be delusional parasitosis as claimed in the wiki, but... the fact that many of the patients are really suffering from Lyme Disease (which can be tested for, and definitively proven that they carry) makes me think that there is something to this. (The first thing I actually thought of, when I read the article Minty linked to, was that perhaps this is some subform of Lyme Disease, where some people who have Lyme also develop this disease as a form of autoimmune disorder-- which would explain why it's only a subset of people who have Lyme Disease who seem to get it, and also is consistent with some of their symptoms... but that's just a theory.)

[Jimmypoo]

That's it! Sprite is DONE!

I will NEVER drink Lymon again!!

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