Biting Mites in the News
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"In the News"& Relevant Websites:
Human Infections:
- ABC News: CDC to Investigate Morgellons Mystery Sufferers Say Mysterious Colored Fibers Grow on Their Skin, Like Hair
- Family Returns Home After Bird Mite Invasion
- Sunday Paper: Parasite, disease—or madness?
- Dallas News: The Plague
- CNN Story "Morgellons - Medical Mystery"
- Daily Mail: Is this a disease or an episode of the X Files
- Popular Mechanics - "Making Their Skin Crawl" June 2005
- CDC Information on this Condition
- Outbreak of Pruritic Rashes Associated with Mites - Kansas
- Medical Mystery in Chicago - Strange bug bites landed more than 100 people in Chicago emergency rooms.
- Body Bugs Part II
- "Tiny Bugs Wreck Havoc; Report of Collembola as Human Parasites Supports Recent Research Findings" - http://www.headlice.org/news/2005/august/tiny_bugs_wreak_havoc.htm
- Full download mp3 - http://www.headlice.org/media/martingreen1.mp3
- Are The Biting Mites Plaguing The Heartland A New Invasive Species?
- SilentSuperBug.com - Video footage about an environmentally resistant and contagious human pathogen.
- Even though the videos appear interesting to the layman; the narrator is not identified; the research facility, if there was one, is also not identified. The slides could have been made by looking at backyard soil or water under a microscope. There are lots of misspellings. This could have been a home-made video that at this point has little, if any, scientific credibility.
Animal Infections:
- Six wolves succumb to mange in Wisconsin this winter.
- Reported Sightings of Black-tailed Deer Hair Loss Locations 2000
- Bears going bald, look like ' large rats' - A Florida Mystery
- Possible relationship between the hormonal status of these animals and their resistance to this parasitic mite infection
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