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[robphelan]

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If diseases like AIDS and bird flu scare you, wait until you hear what's next. Doctors are trying to find out what is causing a bizarre and mysterious infection that's surfaced in South Texas.

"It really has the makings of a horror movie in every way,"

"These people will have like beads of sweat but it's black, black and tarry,"

"He'd have attacks and fibers would come out of his hands and fingers, white, black and sometimes red. Very, very painful,"

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: robphelan
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If diseases like AIDS and bird flu scare you, wait until you hear what's next. Doctors are trying to find out what is causing a bizarre and mysterious infection that's surfaced in South Texas.

"It really has the makings of a horror movie in every way,"

"These people will have like beads of sweat but it's black, black and tarry,"

"He'd have attacks and fibers would come out of his hands and fingers, white, black and sometimes red. Very, very painful,"

What, like webbing?

 

[Platypus]

In other ridiculous fear mongering, I mean news...

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: robphelan
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If diseases like AIDS and bird flu scare you, wait until you hear what's next. Doctors are trying to find out what is causing a bizarre and mysterious infection that's surfaced in South Texas.

"It really has the makings of a horror movie in every way,"

"These people will have like beads of sweat but it's black, black and tarry,"

"He'd have attacks and fibers would come out of his hands and fingers, white, black and sometimes red. Very, very painful,"

sounds like that black oil stuff from the X-files. it was like some kind of alian organism or something.

nothing to worry about, its just the US gov. testing its new biological weapon.

 

[yobarman]

pubes growing in your skin, whats the big deal

 

[SlitheryDee]

Sounds like something you'd see on the X-Files.

 

[JujuFish]

Pleasant.

 

[anonymouschris]

that is really disturbing

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: robphelan
Story Link

If diseases like AIDS and bird flu scare you, wait until you hear what's next. Doctors are trying to find out what is causing a bizarre and mysterious infection that's surfaced in South Texas.

"It really has the makings of a horror movie in every way,"

"These people will have like beads of sweat but it's black, black and tarry,"

"He'd have attacks and fibers would come out of his hands and fingers, white, black and sometimes red. Very, very painful,"

sounds like that black oil stuff from the X-files. it was like some kind of alian organism or something.

nothing to worry about, its just the US gov. testing its new biological weapon.

[Officer Barbrady]Show's over, nothing to see here, move along now.[/Officer Barbrady]

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: yobarman
pubes growing in your skin, whats the big deal

have you ever seen your pubes grow before your eyes?

 

[couppi]

Jesus Christ. It's not even contagious. It's pretty gross though.

 

[zanieladie]

Originally posted by: anonymouschris
that is really disturbing

 

[jiwq]

just reading the article makes me all itchy

 

[imported_Lucifer]

I hope I dont get infected.

<--san antonio

 

[waitman]

Originally posted by: Lucifer
I hope I dont get infected.

<--san antonio

You're Lucifer, you started it!

 

[djheater]

I gotta say I'm pretty skeptical about this. Why doesn't any of the information tell you what the 'fibers' are? What are they composed of? Wouldn't that be a pretty important thing to know?

The way it's being handled by

the website isn't very informative.

 

[Kadarin]

That is really strange...

 

[Buck Naked]

Originally posted by: djheater
I gotta say I'm pretty skeptical about this. Why doesn't any of the information tell you what the 'fibers' are? What are they composed of? Wouldn't that be a pretty important thing to know?

The way it's being handled by

the website isn't very informative.

The fibers have been analyzed by FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy) and have tentatively been identified as cellulose.

Edit; Yeah this is freakin weird.

These fibers exhibit a high degree of autofluorescence and are not textile derived.

 

[tnilC]

That scares the sh!t out of me.

 

[sniperruff]

Originally posted by: Buck Naked

Originally posted by: djheater
I gotta say I'm pretty skeptical about this. Why doesn't any of the information tell you what the 'fibers' are? What are they composed of? Wouldn't that be a pretty important thing to know?

The way it's being handled by

the website isn't very informative.

The fibers have been analyzed by FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy) and have tentatively been identified as cellulose.

Edit; Yeah this is freakin weird.

These fibers exhibit a high degree of autofluorescence and are not textile derived.

cellulose eh... maybe the fibers that these people eat are somehow not excreted by the digestive tract and instead integrated into their blood stream???

i mean these aren't really BS if some faculty of oklahoma U are involved...

 

[djheater]

Sorry finally dug through and found that paper in the medical journal, that made me take it more seriously. The wiki is also informative.

I find stuff like this incredibly interesting, especially the link to a 400 year old condition, that's interesting, though seems like there's no way to prove it.

Hopefully the guy doing the investigation of the fibers and patient samples will come up with a connection.

 

[Icepick]

Wow. That's creepy. I have some co-workers based in Northern Texas. I'll have to recommend that my team's next face to face meeting is somewhere other than Texas.

 

[RossMAN]

OMGWTFBBQ?

 

[JDrake]

:shocked:

 

[TitanDiddly]

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