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Listen to a nightmare: You wake up one day and notice some reddish spots on your body; they itch a bit, sting a little. You think you've been bitten by bedbugs or something. But the next day, the spots are oozing. Now you reach for the Neosporin, but instead of healing, the sores sprout tiny black granules and blue, red, and translucent threads. You feel as if bugs are crawling all over you. By the time you get to the doctor, you've developed severe pain and swelling in your joints, a weird mental fogginess, and an understandable depression. The doctor runs lots of tests but thinks it's all in your head. Then you wake up. [paragraph] Or not. For 4,500 Americans, this is a nightmare they can't awaken from. They suffer from Morgellons disease, which you no doubt have read about on the Internet and in the papers as our latest disease du jour. Naturally, Texas is at the forefront of this bizarre outbreak--second to California in incidence--as it was with avian flu and antibiotic-resistant staph infections. No, I'm not making any of this up, though there certainly are doctors who think...
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