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Strange symptoms of Morgellons will get a closer look.(N)
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The Virginian Pilot
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January 20, 2008
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Byline: MIKE STOBBE
By Mike Stobbe
The Associated Press
ATLANTA
It sounds like a freakish ailment from a horror movie: Sores erupt on your skin, mysterious threads pop out of them, and you feel like tiny bugs are crawling all over you.
Some experts believe it's a psychiatric phenomenon, yet hundreds of people say it's a true physical condition. It's called Morgellons, and now the government is about to begin its first medical study of it.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is paying California-based health care giant Kaiser Permanente $338,000 to test and interview patients suffering from Morgellons' bizarre symptoms. The one-year ...