How contagious are Morgellons?

No questioning, morgellons pathogenes are mostly contagious for immunocompromised people with certain hormonal disfunctions. The spreading and propagation systematic of these pathogenetic micro-organisms occurs at anytime, but more at damp and warmer temperatures.

The spreading in nature or a direct human infection is mostly taking place over industrial manufactured, porous plastic, cellulosis, or cotton fibers (bio-active and electro-active fibers). Filled up or covered with a biofilm of different kind of pathogenes.

These industrial produced fibers can bind also other pathogenes, such as bacteria, viruses, fungus, worm/filaria eggs, up to the environment (soil etc.) where these industrial fibers had later contact to. These fiber strings can also attract moisture or being sometimes also conducent for electricity and being attracted electro-statically from metals or from bigger bio-masses such as mammals with a different electrical charge as the fibers.

It might be, that also micro metal particles could be resident in these bacteria, which let them react stronger on magnetic fields. Also insects (mosquitos, bird-mites, collembola etc.) which had contact to these fibers can pass them and infect any other host too.

Possibly every country in the world is already contaminated with these fibers. Infections are possible by mouth or nose breathing (aerosol) or swallowing (water and food intake), blood-transfusion and by any direct skin contact. There will be sooner or later surely more news reports coming up about unknown pathogenes in the food or water, which can causes Encephalitis/Meningitis etc., as recently happend also with bacteria found in baby food or Listeria bacteria found in sea lax.

The duration of activeness of these parasites, without a living host depends on the environmental conditions. They prefer high air humidity and lower temperatures, similar to the Scabies mite, when no host is available. Temperatures which humans can tolerate, such as 30-45 degrees Celsius (80-120 F.) are a good range for fungal and bacterial organisms. Higher temperatures, such as 90 degrees C. (240 F.), are also tolerated for approximately 60-120 minutes.

Anyway, since they are surrounded with a protective layer, they can survive the higher temperatures for longer times. The colored industrial fibers (transport-medium) survive approx. 600- 650 degrees Celcius (1600-1700 degrees F.) before burning. Starting approximatly about 16 degrees C. (42 F.) environmental temperature, these organisms becomes higher active and also more capable of infecting human hosts. They just need a bit of water to get active.

There are similarities to types of sheathed nematode, or worm (protective slime layers), but the base life form is surely a bacterial/fungal slime (biofilm), which in symbiosis with algae etc. becomes ever more independent (autotrophic bio-system) and a growing expanding biofilm with prolonged biofilm spores (tentacle-like).

It may be possible, if these organisms are different kinds of GMO`s, that they may include genetically also variants of tropical worms. Tropical worm infections, despite not having been previously found here in our climate zones, has also occurred before, with the tropical worm infestation in Central Europe called the "pit-worm" (A. duodenale, a type of hook worm nematode) which spread throughout the hard coal mine workers and other mountain workers, due to the correct humidity and uniform temperatures for its survival.

Since meanwhile the climatic "heat border" is to be found ever further north, due to warming trends, many tropical parasites could be adapting better to new northern latitudes. High adaptation or not: Perhaps that does not matter in this day and age. Diseases are now spread more cosmopolitan by rapid travel everywhere, and thus may not even be seasonal. Nor does one need to travel to truly exotic locales in order to get infected: Like the idiom says, "Why travel in a foreign country, if the foreign countries already come to us?"

Unfortunately, in our areas of the world, there is a lack of medical care in the recognition for typical subtropical diseases or symptoms. Physicians here are not educated or suspicious about these illnesses; so many times these types of diseases overtake the body for a longer time in our latitudes and go un-recognized, because it is just not endemic. Just questioning about tropical vacations is actually redundant, since tropical conditions can exist here at times and exposure can occur here as well, as mentioned before.

When speaking about the direct contact infections, the hormonal composition and or the intensity of the sweat seems to be crucial factor to be infected, although the blood group, skin thickness and weight of the host seem not to play a role, but many life factors that keeps the body in permanent chemical conditions which are also lowering the immune system. People who had stress all their life are rather concerned than relaxed ones.

Cross-contamination could be taking place through damp hand contact. Theoretically, it can occur with any contact that is still moist from body perspiration, such as in a crowded bus, a locker room, a gym, swimming pool, the shopping carts handle, public telephone etc. Summer temperatures would favor this situation.

One could sweat, wipe the sweat away with the hands, or onto the clothes, then these sticky hands might contaminate any number of possible objects, such as money from a sweaty wallet carried in the back pocket, the blood pressure cuff at your doctor's office, the brushes and combs used by your hairdresser, the countertop at the discotheque or bar, office keyboards and (of course) any shared droplet secretions with other people in sexual or Iv drug use-directly or through one's family members and close associates.

Therefore the larger the group, and more intimate the public mixing (sharing a toilet area for prolonged times like on long distance trains or airplanes, re-circulating air on the airplanes to save on heating, public phones) the larger the risk of exposure and an indirect infection. These fibers have contaminated already wide areas of the world and a contamination with them can surely happen also from animals and their meat.

It can happen from chickens which have picked up some worms or other food from the soil, or from cattles/cows and their meat or milk and as well from fruits and vegetables etc. Since nobody is suspecting anything about this new organisms and their ways of contamination, nobody can prevent it.

Some humans types which are far less likely to develop usual symptoms after having contact with this parasite, due to a yet good immun system or a minor genetical disposition for bacteria or fungal infection, may probably get much later the same illness symptoms. But they can be infected at this time for sure with lyme and all the other exciters and being also for a certain time just a latent carrier of sleeping inactive fibers (Sleepers).

Perhaps much later even after many years when also their body chemistry has changed they become sick too. Anyway, also lyme is contagious in the same way as syphilis, it may just starting with a kiss. !! The problem is that many don`t know this fact and also many countries won`t accept that lyme disease is really existing. Such ignorant scientist or authorities without knowledge and a small brain thinking should rather change their profession. 

There is some sort of actual selection process occurring, and a clear preference for the new host must be present, in order for the parasite to "voluntarily" infest and infect a new host-body, as has been shown with other parasites too.

Sometimes "involuntary" direct transfer occurs such as during a vigorous sweaty wrestling match, or sexual encounter, when skin friction is combined with sweat. In this situation, IF the parasite is NOT receptive to the new host, it will endeavor to reach the old host body again. If the new host body is NOT sweaty or is covered by artificial lotions or chemicals, penetration into the skin can actually be slowed or prevented, and sometimes with a following hot showers, the infection can be eliminated before it has begun if the parasite was still located on skin.

However, once this parasitic life form has completely lost contact with its host-body and is only associated with inert objects it become inactive to a "Sleeper" after drying out. But it is MUCH less discriminating any kind of host and it will become active/associated immediately even by momentary contact and a contamination of  80-90 % (not an infection) is surely predestined, even by a simple hand contact. But it needs always enough moisture to become again fully active. This can take a few minutes, hours or days and it is up to the stage of its own cellular dryness (dis-hydration).

Previously, We can not suppose that these parasitic life forms were only host-specific (animal hosts OR human hosts) and then became by adaptation heteroxene, by having multi-hosts (animal hosts, intermediate hosts, human hosts), it seems that they are capable to settle on any kind of biological material or hosts, without any discrimination for it in the fight of surviving. Sometime living first in symbiosis with the host cells and sometime later just as parasites, due to a changed host chemistry.

What happens to these organisms, after they are rinsed into the sewage system, is currently not clear. They may survive in the water or in the sewage purification plant, perhaps even after a chemical treatment. There are annual reports of urban biological sewage purification plants, which have great already deal of problems with the bacteria and nematodes its filtering units collect, etc.

Theoretically it would thus also be possible, that these parasites arrive over the water pipelines again into the dwellings (shower, washing machine, drinking faucet, etc.). It is not a thing of impossibility, since gradually ever more areas (soil, lakes, plants, animals) are infested with these parasites sooner or later. Messy and unclean living conditions, as well as any chronic illnesses will favor constant re-infection with these organisms.

These parasites are mostly stationary on the host and underwear and they can sometimes also be distributed by fans or blowing wind, into every crack and crevice of one's ling space. Everything has to be wiped down carefully with disposable clothes or throw-away sponges when trying to eliminate these parasites. Unfortunately a re-infection is still possible even after months of being free from infestation.

The length of infestation can be constantly extended without just blaming the sufferer (unhygienical conditions) because the high rate of survival of the parasites is a cause of re-infection, since one can simply never transform a living environment for a longer time, into a sterile field, no matter how many plastic wraps, cleaning solutions and rubber gloves one uses.

Anyway unhygienical enviroments favoring the re-infections rate. Extreme hygiene and discipline is required for a longer time than you might expect. (see "Hygiene"). Rarely, a renewed infestation occurs from the bed or carpet, only if one is sleeping naked or runs around barefoot or even with socks. But by common utensils, like the computer mouse, keyboard, remote control, etc.

Samples taken in the living areas, and then examined under the microscope very carefully for evidence of parasites, show the daily re-infection factor concerning the distribution of the parasites behave in the everyday living environment, on the average. (counted on 100%, without auto re-infection factor host organism):

- 35% re-infections by daily underwear, even washed 60/90 degrees C. (160/240 F.), in the summer time 45%

- 25% re-infections by daily utensils (remote control, kitchen utensils, coffee machine, computer, etc.)

- 13% re-infections by dwelling generally (carpets, couch, stairway hand rail, plastic hangers etc.)

- 10% re-infections by car (seat covers, arm rests, door handles, seatbelts, etc.)

- 9%  re-infections by bed pillows (in the summer more sweating re-infection rise up to 15%, with feather pillows 30 % )

- 5%  re-infections by washed bed linens (if sleeping naked re-infection rise up to 20%)

- 4%  re-infections by washed overwear clothing (jackets at arms and at collar, 10%)

On the basis of this data one can recognize the re-infection often takes place via the underwear. Less re-infection occurs either from bed or clothing (jackets), depending on whether one sleeps naked or not (due to abrading eggs or fibers directly into bed linen etc.). Winter and summer time definitely show marked differences as well with feather pillows (biological fillings).

In the summer the re-infection parameters are substantially higher. Therefore, one must not tear off all carpets, or burn down and re-build houses, in order to decimate the parasite. In order to recognize and understand re-infection sources, the above list should help support meaningful conclusions, to strengthen the recovery process and avoid unnecessary re-infections which are for sure the main problem for having a recovery..