Campaign group the Charles E Holman Foundation states there are sufferers in "every continent except Antarctica". Since then, workers at her Morgellons Research Foundation say they have been contacted by more than 12,000 affected families. Examining him with a toy microscope, Leitao found him to be covered in unexplained red, blue, black and white fibres. Morgellons was named in 2001 by an American called Mary Leitao, whose son complained of sores around his mouth and the sensation of "bugs". As he read on, he had no idea that morgellons would turn out to be the worst kind of answer imaginable. The fibres were the product of mysterious creatures that burrow and breed in the body. What were those curling, coloured fibres? He Googled the words: "Fibres. Paul went out, bought a £40 microscope and examined the cotton. Then, in 2008, his wife was soothing his back with surgical spirit when the cotton swab she was using gathered a curious blue-black haze from his skin.
When Paul rubbed his fingertips over the pimples that dotted his skin, he felt spines. It must be fleas in the seat, he decided.īut the 55-year-old IT executive from Birmingham has been itching ever since, and the mystery of what is wrong with him has only deepened. His legs, his arms, his torso – it was everywhere. Paul had been watching Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix with his wife and two sons, and he had started to itch.
I t all started in August 2007, on a family holiday in New England.
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