Weird X-Files skin disease treated as a psychological disorder

 

'The symptoms sound like something from The X Files - sufferers complain of a crawling sensation all over the body, egg-like lumps under the skin and, even more bizarrely, cuts which produce tiny red and blue fibres. Many doctors, however, are highly sceptical - dismissing the symptoms as imaginary and patients as delusional.

 

But a growing number of experts believe the symptoms are genuine, and the U.S. government’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is investigating the condition - Morgellons disease - as reported in the New Scientist.'

 

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