ATLANTA -- Imagine your corpse poc...

ATLANTA -- Imagine your corpse pocked by erupting sores. The sensation of little bug crawling all athwart you. And mysterious red and amethystine fibers sprouting from your skin.

A growing legion of Americans say they endure from this condition, and now the U Center for Disease check and Prevention is investigating.

one doctors dismiss these patients as delusional. still the condition -- called Morgellons -- has caused a small distraction on the Internet, with centurys of people pleading for help.

folks claiming to have Morgellons report a wide variety of symptoms, ranging from joint pain to irregular bowel mental actions But most describe crawling sensations along the skin, sores, fatigue, "brain fog" and the appearance of small or microscopic fibers upon or under the skin.

one doctors think Morgellons is produc by dint of the mind, not the material substance "I think of Morgellons as a piece of a larger phenomenon -- delusional parasitosis," said Dr Annette Matthews, a psychiatrist at the Oregon Health & Science University. Delusional parasitosis is a psychosis in which sufferer believe they are infected with parasites.

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