Agrobacterium & Morgellons Disease, GM link indicated in preliminary findings Options

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The excerpt below is part of a much longer article at GlobalResearch.ca. It's a useful overview of some the work done to date in relation to a possible link between Morgellons and genetically modified agrobacterium.

If you are new to the subject please note that there are a number of alternative explanations to the Morgellons phenomenon, many of which are diversions, ranging from blaming the victim ('delusional parasitosis'), to blaming their socks or blaming the ETs – and that tells you right there that there's something real being hidden in plain site.

It seems to be a fact that the basic truthfulness of many conspiracies can be assessed quite accurately by measuring the amount (and kookiness) of alternative theories put out about an issue. Where there's a flood, there's a flotilla of enemy life-rafts to pick you up – and the idea is that you get confused or bored and move on to something else less challenging (to THEM). See 9/11 or the JFK assassination for prime examples of impenetrable goo (then use the experience to learn to spot BS EVERYWHERE!)

For all I know the agrobacterium line of thought might turn out to be a dead end in relation to Morgellons, but it's worth a look as it appears it might have some potential.

Agrobacterium & Morgellons Disease, A GM Connection?

by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins

Global Research, August 20, 2008

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9891

Preliminary findings suggest a link between Morgellons Disease and Agrobacterium, a soil bacterium extensively manipulated and used in making GM crops; has genetic engineering created a new epidemic?

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...researchers from the Morgellons Research Foundation [3] identified the states of California, Texas and Florida as having the highest number of cases of Morgellons disease in the United States. Primary clusters were noted in Los Angeles and San Francisco (California) and Houston, Dallas and Austin (Texas). California accounted for 26 percent of cases in the US, but all 50 US states and 15 other nations, including Canada, the UK, Australia, and the Netherlands, have reported cases of Morgellons disease. The two main occupational groups reporting symptoms are nurses and teachers, with nurses outnumbering teachers three to one. The risk factor common to both groups is suspected to be the possibility of transmitted infectious agents.

Skin lesions and fibres may not be readily apparent in all individuals with the disease, as family members of patients often report similar systemic disease symptoms without skin symptoms. Families in which all members are affected often have suspected simultaneous exposure to an inciting agent. Contact with soil or waste products appears to be associated with the disease. Cases have been reported in cats and dogs, as well as horses.

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The Agrobacterium connection
Vitaly Citovsky is a professor of molecular and cell biology at Stony Brook University in New York (SUNY). He is a world authority on the genetic modification of cells by Agrobacterium, a soil bacterium causing crown gall disease in plants, that has been widely used in creating genetically modified (GM) plants since the 1980s because of its ability to transfer a piece of its genetic material, the T-DNA on its tumour-inducing (Ti) plasmid to the plant genome (see later for details).

Citovsky's team...snip... analysed patients for Agrobacterium DNA. Skin biopsy samples from Morgellons patients were subjected to high-stringency polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for genes encoded by the Agrobacterium chromosome and also for Agrobacterium virulence (vir) genes and T-DNA on its Ti plasmid. They found that "all Morgellons patients screened to date have tested positive for the presence of Agrobacterium, whereas this microorganism has not been detected in any of the samples derived from the control, healthy individuals." Their preliminary conclusion is that "Agrobacterium may be involved in the etiology and/or progression" of Morgellons Disease.

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Full article here