Are new diseases, such as Morgellons, showing up at your workplace, and reducing the cognitive abilities of the firm? What's your take?
Newly identified, Morgellons, for instance, is a disease that affects the brain and yet is little understood problem. New facts are coming from 
researcher, Robert Bransfield, who shows how the disease can result in paranoia and even in delusions.
While some Morgellons patients are diagnosed with other diseases such as ADHD, others go without any notion of what's wrong.
The patients see and describe bugs crawling under their skin.
Ulcers are what you see, and scientists are still battling the causes. Yet, in the meantime an increasing number of patients suffer from both sores and the sensation.
Morgellon victims also feel fatigue and suffer from cognitive ailments, and their skin becomes riddled with sores that scar over.
It amazes me how pride prevents progress in this particular field of Morgellon's Disease. Just because the respected clinician cannot figure out what the patient is suffering from he is willing to label it with the high-sounding name of a disease he either knows, heard or has studied.
There are clinicians who consider themselves objective people and will not believe till some 'authority' makes a statement. Why don't they initiate an investigation for the sake of these sufferers with all the clout that is availabe to the medical profession ? Imaginary or otherwise - for goodness sake, isn't it time to get to the bottom of it ?
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