Revelations From A Man Who Helped Design Morgellons Disease

There are two videos at Carnicom.com about Morgellons Disease. These are Important videos and must be watched.

The first video:

 “Introductory Remarks”

The 2nd video: 

“Morgellons 2nd Session”

These 2 videos are well done and well researched by Clifford Carnicom and Dr. Gwen Scott.  The information in these videos affects every individual in this country.  They are perhaps the two of the most important videos ever to be made. If you have not viewed these videos you need to do it ASAP.  These videos are not casual entertainment they are about all of us.  Not just a few people with a weird disease called Morgellons, but about all of us.  This information personally affects every person you love and care about.  It is about your grandchildren, your family pet, your loved ones and even people down the street that you don’t care about. We are all being subjected to this.  It is in the very air we are breathing, and the food we are eating.  That is certain.  There are more vectors beyond even that.  To put it in simple terms: 

We May All Have Morgellons Disease and It Is Man Made!

Many people viewing these videos may have overlooked one of the most import pieces of information that was included in each.  Someone has confessed to participation in at least one aspect of the formulation of this disease.  It is not to be overlooked or tossed aside.  I do believe that Dr. Gwen Scott has been contacted by a credible source who has admitted his part in creating Morgellons Disease. There is still so much conjecture as to the origins of Morgellons that perhaps Gwen’s statements will impact someone who is still pretending that this disease in not a deliberate assault on all humankind.  It is important to make sure everyone will hear or read this message.  For this reason I have transcribed the relevant points she made about the origin of Morgellons disease from her videos with Clifford Carnicom.  Perhaps seeing it all in print will give it more credibility.  Since it is the spoken word and not text originally I wrote it verbatim as she spoke it without any changes.

I give great credit to Dr. Gwen Scott for putting forth this vital information and for her selfless work for she has done for the Morgellons community.  She is herself a sufferer of the extreme symptoms of the disease.  Likewise, I am proud to know Clifford Carnicom and count him among the true heroes of our time for his selfless dedication to this research and getting the truth out there in spite of the personal dangers that can come with being an honest man in these dark times.  Clifford has revealed the biggest “dirty little secret” known to man.

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Here is the written transcript from a small portion of the spoken dialogue by Dr. Gwen Scott from the above “Introductory Remarks” video regarding who responsible for origins of Morgellons disease.

“Introductory Remarks”

Dr. Gwen Scott States:

“I began to see there are a lot of components.  It is a very compound complex network of pathogens.  Organic, inorganic and all kinds of things.

We have fibers, heavy metals, bacteria, funguses, viruses that seem to be working somehow synergistically.  None of them good to the Human.”

“I was able to touch base with one of the people who actively was involved in the design of some of this and I think at the time he thought he was doing this country some good – and in retrospect now realizes, perhaps not.  Now he’s trying very hard to help anybody who’s conscious of what’s going on.  He did tell me that most of these pathogens have been genetically altered so that your immune system doesn’t know that they’re there.  They’re cloaked, they’re different, they can overcome.  I won’t go into the specifics but just let’s say these are not your average bacteria, virus, fungus – and of course heavy metals are not average in the human body anyway – and these fibers, these unusual fibers are wires that we’re seeing.  People have said, “Well, where’s it coming from?”  Clearly, there have been enough samples to know and Mr. Carnicom, Clifford, just made that connection for us through the air.  Some of them are coming to us through the air, with deliberation through the air supply.  I have been told by this same gentleman it is also being delivered to us by our food supply.  Particularly commercial preprocessed food”

Gwen also went on to say she believes that another vector of transmission is through vaccines.

 

Here is the written transcript from a small portion of the dialogue by Dr. Gwen  Scott from the above “2nd Video” regarding her contact with one of the designers of Morgellons Disease.

“Morgellons 2nd Session”

Dr. Gwen Scott states:

“Since our last discussion I did have a gentleman who was involved in some of this (Morgellons design) call me.  When he was involved he felt he was doing something to help the soldiers in the field in this country.  He was told these things would be sprayed, aerosol sprayed, from planes on the enemy and they would save soldier’s lives – and then it occurred to him when he became aware and began to see Clifford’s work and other work that, oops, maybe that’s not the case.  So now he’s trying really hard to help out anybody that he can find that’s trying to do the work. -and he explained something to me that I knew that I had kind of forgotten.  Every organ in your body has a specific frequency and it operates at that frequency. -and when you interrupt that frequency electromagnetically, you can create all kinds of serious (even unto death) problems.

He also talked about areas of the brain and mind control.  -and as Orwellian as that may seem, apparently, scientifically it is very real.  We know from Clifford’s work, for years now, the electromagnetic properties of what’s happening in our air supply as a result of the manipulation and the manipulation of that.  Beyond that he talked about then confirmed to me the heavy metals, the barium, the titanium, the aluminum.  None of which, trust me, are good for the human.   He talked about the biological.  He said all of it had been altered.  Some of it (and Clifford had eluded to earlier in the video) can kind of escape your immune system, cloak itself in one form or another.  Again (he spoke of) the electromagnetics and also the lack of oxygen, the displacement of oxygen.  The more you displace oxygen out of the air supply with particulates, (it could be Cornflakes, it doesn’t matter) the mortality rates go up concurrently.  We are operating on a very low level of oxygen.”

Dr Gwen Scott who is also a Morgellons sufferer shares her excellent holistic protocol for Morgellons and a Flu Protocol with others at the following link.  ArizonaSkywatch

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The Morgellons Research Foundation is designated by the IRS as a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Donations to The Morgellons Research Foundation are tax-deductible to the full extent of the Internal Revenue Code, and will help us to continue to raise awareness of this disease, as well as to fund critical research.

Six groups of PhD level scientists have submitted formal research proposals to the MRF, totaling $581,600. These dedicated researchers, who work at three different universities, two private microbiology laboratories, and one research institute, require funding to continue their investigations of Morgellons disease.

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Thank you to the NHRA for their help in raising awareness of Morgellons disease, during the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Races in Pomona, California.

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Welcome to the MRF Advocacy Coalition
The Morgellons Research Foundation is working diligently to accomplish the goals of the MRF: raising awareness of Morgellons disease and increasing funding for research. Please help us help you, your loved ones, or people whose lives have been affected by this illness.

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Here are some of the ways you can help:

1. Register with the MRF. .
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2. Contact Congress.
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3. Contact President Obama.
Ask ten additional people to do the same.

Information about contacting president Obama can be seen below. This letter (or your version) can be sent via the following two Whitehouse website contact forms, faxed or mailed to the President. We recommend faxing over mailing since postal mailings likely pass through a lengthy security screening process.

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4. Please consider volunteering your time to help us.
We are trying to help over 13,000 families whose lives have been affected by this illness. We are a grassroots organization with all-volunteer officers, board members or staff. We do have human compassion, drive, and dedication. But we need help! We have a tremendous need for volunteers able to assist us in some critical need areas, including those below.

Critical Needs:

Please email [email protected] if you can help in one of the following ways:

A. Clinicians: If you are a physician, or other clinician and feel that you could help us in any way, please contact us. We are in need of clinicians willing to accept patients suffering from this illness.

B. Fundraising. We hope to raise appropriate funds to support the five (5) research grant proposals sent to us by PhD level scientists, which will speed the discovery process.

C. Professionals. We would like to hear from professionals capable of helping in any way.

D. Scientists. We would like to hear from scientists able to investigate any aspect of this illness.

 

case

The Medical Advisory Board of the Morgellons Research Foundation (MRF) developed a Case Definition, the most recent revision of which is currently nearing completion. Until this more rigorous definition has been submitted for review, the much earlier case characterization (seen at bottom) will remain in place.

Following is the history of the MRF’s attempt to understand Morgellons disease.

 

Morgellons Disease is a label assigned by the founder of the MRF to the condition of an ill child in 2002 with numerous symptoms outside known illness categories. One physical sign became the “defining” characteristic of the illness: small diameter “filaments” protruding from lesions near the child’s mouth and other body areas that were both sensitive and painful.  In searching for others who might have encountered the same phenomenon, the MRF was created. Its initial function was to convey details of the phenomenon to others, and simultaneously provide a central registration site to foster broader communication.

 

Although the initial attention of the MRF focused on filaments and movement, awareness of the other symptoms increased which broadened the presumed boundaries of the illness.  This illuminated the possible degree of disability of those afflicted and made clear that Morgellons disease likely extended far beyond the “filaments” and dermal movement sensations, to include numerous other organ system effects. Initially the name Morgellons disease was only a rallying point for self-diagnosed people to compare symptoms and experiences. With time, the number of registrants and the magnitude of their data reached a level that revealed a more consistent pattern, and although virtually all remained self-diagnosed, more than one hundred physicians contacted the MRF about patients with similar symptoms. In addition, physicians,  veterinarians, dentists, nurses, and other medical professionals contacted the MRF about their own illness, or about the illness of family members.
The first attempt to pool and characterize Morgellons data into a consistent pattern was made by a physician member of the MRF who evaluated information collected from fifty people who self-referred from the MRF site to a single medical clinic. It was noted that many of these patients had been previously diagnosed with a common medical label, Delusions of Parasitosis (DP), the basic tenet being this is a psychiatric illness with the presumption of a purely delusional “parasite infestation.” It was already clear by the time the first dozen patients had been extensively examined physically that they did not fit under that diagnostic label. All had evidence of actual parasite infestation, including comparison of typical skin lesions, onset history, sequence of organ system involvement, and expected organ pathology. The “filaments” were consistently observable and collectible, and laboratory data was collected on all, supporting an irrefutable immune deficiency state, chronic inflammation, and a complex picture of autonomic abnormalities. Medical histories clearly support that most symptoms of Morgellons disease precede emotional effects. Thus, it appears that Morgellons and DP are different illnesses.
Many clinicians sought out initially by patients, although formally trained and licensed, based their conclusions on the presumptions of others who had made the same presumptions in the 57 DP-titled papers in the NLM database from 1956 through 2007. Although some patients did find clinicians willing to help them, many patients reported feeling abandoned by physicians unwilling to investigate their illness. These patients tried valiantly to find a modicum of relief in the face of an otherwise ineffective medical system, and some became the target of fringe groups who occasionally promoted ineffective treatments for economic benefit.
The MRF chose to display the following clinical characterization from 2005, which has since been revised, of Morgellons disease. We know well that Morgellons disease has no formal Case Definition. However, all new definitions of human disease begin with patient observations and collected data. As the number of patients we have temporarily labeled Morgellons has grown in consistency and, counter to the DP concept, we present below a collation of all information collected from Morgellons patients until mid-2006 to create a MRF characterization of the illness. The following subsequent step will be a fact-based Case Definition.

 

THE MRF 2006 MORGELLONS DISEASE CHARACTERIZATION:

The Following Signs or Symptoms are The Basis of Morgellons Disease as defined by patients that fit within a consistent boundary that is also outside the boundary of other “known” diseases. The initial three characteristics parallel a much more entrenched illness, Delusions of Parasitosis (DP) named decades before today’s laboratory technology and infection/immunity knowledge, driven by HIV, developed. The more recent findings listed below provide a far broader and more consistent evidence base, strongly supporting the likelihood that DP is a prematurely assigned label to an organic, rather than purely psychiatric disease.

1. “Filaments” are reported in and on skin lesions and at times extruding from intact-appearing skin. White, blue, red, and black are common among described fiber colors. Size is near microscopic, and good clinical visualization requires 10-30 X. Patients frequently describe ultraviolet light generated fluorescence. They also report black or white granules, similar in size and shape to sand grains, on or in their skin or on clothing. Most clinicians willing to invest in a simple hand held commercial microscope have thus far been able to consistently document the filaments.

 

2. Movement sensations, both beneath and on the skin surface. Sensations are often described by the patient as intermittently moving, stinging or biting. Involved areas can include any skin region (such as over limbs or trunk), but may be limited to the scalp, nasal passages, ear canals, or face…and curiously, legs below the knees.

 

3. Skin lesions, both (a) spontaneously appearing and (b) self-generated, often with pain or intense itching. The former (a) may initially appear as “hive-like”, or as “pimple-like” with or without a white center. The latter (b) appear as linear or “picking” excoriations. Even when not self-generated (as in unreachable regions of babies’ skin), lesions often progress to open wounds that heal incompletely (e.g., heal very slowly with discolored epidermis or seal over with a thick gelatinous outer layer.). Evidence of lesions persists visually for years.

4. Musculoskeletal Effects and Pain is usually present, manifest in several ways. Pain distribution is broad, and can include joint(s), muscles, tendons and connective tissue. Both vascular and “pressure” headaches and vertebral pain are particularly common, the latter usually with premature (e.g., age 20) signs of degeneration of both discs and vertebrae.

5. Aerobic limitation is universal and significant enough to interfere with the activities of daily living. Most patients meet the Fukuda Criteria for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome as well (Fukuda, Ann. Int. Med., 1994). Cardiology data and consistently elevated heart rates suggest a persistent myocarditis creating lowered cardiac output that has been partially compensated for by Starling’s Law.

6. Cognitive dysfunction, includes frontal lobe processing signs interfering with logical thinking as well as short-term memory and attention deficit. All are measurable by Standard Psychometric Test batteries.

7. Emotional effects are present in most patients. Character typically includes loss or limitation of boundary control (as in bipolar illness) and intermittent obsessional state. Degree varies greatly from virtually absent to seriously life altering.

OTHER COMMONLY REPORTED SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS

1. Shifting visual acuity. Unexplained frequent need to change glasses prescription, perceived changes in visual field, and scattered and changing level of perceived light intensity.

2. Numerous neurological symptoms and clinical findings. A variety of neurological symptoms and signs have been reported.  Common physical findings include abnormal Romberg, peripheral neuropathy in ALL (feet, and in some cases fingers), abnormal reflexes, verifiable, probably neuropathic pain and recurrent brain control abnormalities affecting motor function, circadian rhythm, body temperature and respiratory rate.

3. Gastrointestinal symptoms, often including dyspepsia, gastroesophageal reflux, swallowing difficulty, and changes in bowel habits (Similar to IBS or Crohn’s disease)

4. Acute changes in skin texture and pigment. The skin is variously thickened and thinned, with irregular texture and hyper- OR hypo-pigmentation pattern. Overgrowth or hypergrowth phenomena are common (nevi, skin tags, microangioma, lipomas, callus formation).

5. Arthralgias. Frequently reported, although arthritis is not. Common joints are in fingers, shoulders, knees and vertebrae.

COMMON LABORATORY ABNORMALITIES

Elevated cytokines: TNF-alpha, IL-6, TGF-beta; elevated inflammation markers: C-reactive protein and TNF-alpha; Immunodeficiency markers: low CD 56 or CD 57 number, low C1Q, low IgG subclasses 1 and 3; hematological abnormalities: low hemoglobin and hematocrit with abnormal RBC indices; and biochemical abnormalities: elevated blood glucose, insulin, calcium, and serum Homocysteine, and low serum potassium and magnesium.

The consistent finding of numerous unexpected biologic agents at atypically high levels (some thought to be non-pathogens, others definitely pathogenic) strongly supports that an immune deficiency state exists in Morgellons patients. Agents identified serologically include many zoonoses (intermittently and in low numbers) such as Borrelia (at least five species) and Babesia, a single recently found gram negative bacterium, most herpes viruses, some strongly activated such as VZV and HHV-6, several mycology species (esp. Tineas), and particularly in those we have labeled Morgellons patients, parasites (species will be elaborated following PCR sequencing).

 

publications

Savely, VR, Stricker, RB, Morgellons Disease: the Mystery Unfolds
Expert Review of Dermatology
2007, Vol. 2, No. 5, Pages 585-591


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Bransfield, RT, Morgellons Disease (Letter to the Editor)
Psychiatric News. 

2007; 42; 11, page 24

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Harvey, WT. Morgellons disease.
J Am Acad Dermatol. 2007;56:705-706.


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Psychology Today Magazine
March 6, 2007
The Morgellons Mystery


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American Journal of
Clinical Dermatology
2006, Volume 7, Issue
authored by:
Ginger Savely, NP,
Mary Leitao and
Raphael B. Stricker, MD

The Mystery of Morgellons Disease:
Infection or Delusion?


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Advance For Nurse Practitioners – May 2005

National Nursing Publication’s
article on
Morgellons Disease
authored by:
Ginger Savely, FNP-C
and Mary M. Leitao


Case Definition Draft of Morgellons Disease

 

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The Morgellons Research Foundation (MRF) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization established in 2002 in honor of a two-year-old child with an unknown illness, which his mother labeled “Morgellons disease”.  The MRF is dedicated to raising awareness and research funding for this poorly understood illness, which can be disfiguring and disabling, and affects people of all age groups including an increasing number of children.  The number of families currently registered with the MRF is believed to represent a fraction of the true number of affected families.

The MRF fully supports the formal efforts by the CDC and Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California Division of Research to investigate Morgellons disease.  The MRF will continue to financially assist the ongoing efforts of private research scientists who are dedicated to solving the mystery of this tragic illness.

CDC Investigation:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in conjunction with Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California Division of Research held a national media telebriefing on January 16, 2008 announcing government efforts to investigate the cause of this illness.  Follow this link for a transcript of the media telebriefing.

According to the CDC:  “Morgellons is an unexplained and debilitating condition that has emerged as a public health concern. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has received an increased number of inquiries from the public, health care providers, public health officials, Congress, and the media regarding this condition.   Persons who suffer from this condition report a range of coetaneous symptoms including crawling, biting and stinging sensations; granules, threads or black speck-like materials on or beneath the skin; and/or skin lesions (e.g., rashes or sores) and some sufferers also report systemic manifestations such as fatigue, mental confusion, short term memory loss, joint pain, and changes in vision”

In Loving Memory of Ken Cowles

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( Please see note below from John Fowler, Health & Science Editor KTVU TV)

 

To MRF Registrants:

 

We are sad to announce the passing of a good and kind human being, Ken Cowles.  Ken passed away peacefully in his sleep on October 24, 2007.

 

Ken was the Director of Media and PR for the Morgellons Research Foundation and worked extremely long hours for the cause.  He felt it was his calling to help all people with this devastating illness and he never waivered in his belief or his efforts. It is due to Ken’s determination and sense of right, that Morgellons disease has received so much media attention starting with KTVU in San Francisco and including ABC’s Primetime Live.

 

Ken learned about Morgellons disease six years ago from a woman with the illness who was living in Washington State.  She contacted Ken because she knew that he had worked with the media on other stories and asked him to consider helping our group.  She asked Ken to speak with people at the MRF for more information and he agreed.  After learning more about the illness and speaking with physicians who had patients, Ken reached out to his contacts in the media and asked for their help raising public awareness of the disease.

 

Below is the thank you to Ken that the MRF has had on the website for several months.  Those of us who knew Ken, loved him and will miss him.  Ken was a good man with a pure heart.

 

Mary Leitao

Morgellons Research Foundation

 

 

Thank you, Ken Cowles!

 

The Morgellons community would like to extend our sincere gratitude to Kenneth (Ken) Cowles, MRF Director of Media and Public Relations, for working diligently and consistently for six years to help all people with Morgellons disease. 

Although Ken does not have Morgellons disease, nor does anyone in his family, he has devoted an enormous amount of his personal time to help raise public awareness of the disease. Thousands of people with Morgellons disease have reported that they became aware of others with their illness only after seeing media coverage which Ken has coordinated over the years.  Ken’s contacts in the media led to the initial KTVU media report of Morgellons disease in March 2004. This initial report was the beginning of a public awareness campaign which Ken directed and devoted himself to daily.

 To Ken Cowles, we would like to say a sincere and heartfelt THANK YOU for caring about the plight of other people, and for a job well done!

 

Dear Mary-It is with profound sadness I write this note of condolence.  Ken was a beacon of moral, ethical and compassionate advocacy for so many people.  His perseverance and clear communication educated me and Sharon about Morgellons and spurred me in my own investigation.  His tireless voice on behalf of the
suffering will be missed by us and I’m certain by many thousands.  As we enter a new phase in the discovery about this illness, I feel compelled to dedicate ourselves in his memory.  My deepest personal condolences to you, for I recognize you lost a friend as well as colleague.
Very truly yours,
John Fowler
Health & Science Editor
KTVU TV
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose