Morgellons United is Canada’s first Morgellons disease human rights organization. We are dedicated to protecting the dignity, welfare, and rights of Morgellons patients in Canada — and worldwide — by holding government accountable to its duty to investigate Morgellons disease.
Since the first outbreak of Morgellons disease in the early 2000s, it has spread around the world with no proper government oversight. Vulnerable members of the public who become infected desperately seek medical attention and are shocked to be told: “Morgellons doesn’t exist,” or “Morgellons is a mental illness requiring antipsychotic drugs,” or “I’ve never heard of this before.”
Over the past two decades, numerous scientific studies on Morgellons disease have been published in peer-reviewed journals. It is recognized as a multisystem infectious disease associated with tick-vectored illness. In particular, the infection causes unique fibers to grow from the skin and disfiguring skin lesions which are resistant to treatment. These unique dermal fibers are tested and proven to be produced by infected skin cells — keratinocytes and fibroblasts — and are composed of the body’s own structural proteins — keratin and collagen.
As the infection spreads without proper medical care, symptoms become worse, overall health declines, and the suffering is unbearable. Since government is responsible for managing public health, our goal is to ensure that government officials formally review new peer-reviewed scientific evidence and reopen their investigation. We recognize this as the key to having Morgellons disease be validated once and for all.
OUR MISSION IS CLEAR
To have the Canadian government conduct a proper institutional review of Morgellons disease based on current scientific evidence, consistent with Canada’s public health mandate and standards of accountability, and to reopen their investigation and test these unique dermal fibers.
OUR PROMISE
Morgellons United will continue to hold government accountable until a proper public health investigation is conducted and its conclusions are formally announced.
Once a proper public health investigation is conducted, including laboratory analysis of Morgellons dermal fibers, the findings are expected to confirm what peer-reviewed research has already demonstrated — that Morgellons disease is a genuine physical disease.
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Morgellons United is Canada’s first Morgellons disease human rights organization. We are dedicated to protecting the dignity, welfare, and rights of Morgellons patients in Canada — and worldwide — by holding government accountable to its duty to investigate Morgellons disease.
Since the outbreak in the early 2000s, Morgellons disease is described in peer-reviewed research as a multisystem illness characterized by life-altering symptoms of ill health associated with an infection, which causes unique fibers to grow from the skin and disfiguring skin lesions resistant to treatment. However, Morgellons is not formally recognized as an infectious disease by government and healthcare officials, therefore, patients continue to suffer immensely.
These unique dermal fibers have been scientifically proven to be produced by infected skin cells and are composed of the body’s own structural proteins: keratin and collagen. Thus, we recognize Morgellons as a true physical disease and not similar to a psychiatric disorder as reported by the CDC.
Since government is responsible for managing public health, our goal is to ensure that government officials formally review new peer-reviewed scientific evidence which was not available when they closed their investigation.
OUR MISSION IS CLEAR
To have the government conduct a proper institutional review of Morgellons disease based on current scientific evidence, consistent with Canada’s public health mandate and standards of accountability, and to reopen their investigation and test these unique dermal fibers.
OUR PROMISE
Morgellons United will continue to hold government accountable until a proper public health investigation is conducted and its conclusions are formally announced.
Once a proper public health investigation is conducted, including laboratory analysis of Morgellons dermal fibers, the findings are expected to confirm what peer-reviewed research has already demonstrated — that Morgellons disease is a genuine physical disease.
An Unresolved Crisis – A Global Turning Point
In 2009, Canada’s Office of the Minister of Health publicly acknowledged the existence of Morgellons disease both in Canada and internationally, reporting that the Public Health Agency of Canada was actively monitoring this emerging healthcare crisis. At that time, the Minister’s Office confirmed that available information on Morgellons disease was extremely limited and effectively confirmed that no action was being taken to provide proper healthcare support to patients.
Despite a substantial body of new scientific evidence and continued cries for help from sufferers, the Canadian government has allowed Morgellons and patients to fall by the wayside.
After years of unsuccessful advocacy efforts with the Liberal Party, the New Democratic Party, the Green Party – and the Prime Minister’s Office — including engagement with two successive Federal Ministers of Health, Morgellons United was founded to take a new and lawful approach. As a consequence, we are currently in direct communication with the Conservative Party of Canada Leader, Pierre Poilievre, and the Office of the Shadow Minister of Health, Dan Mazier.
We have submitted a formal request:
That Minister Mazier review more than a decade of new medical evidence — available at morgellonsunited.com/research — and refer this evidence to the Federal Minister of Health, the Honourable Marjorie Michel, in his official capacity as Conservative Party of Canada Shadow Minister of Health.
We have requested that Minister Mazier formally urge the Federal Minister of Health, Marjorie Michel, to direct the Public Health Agency of Canada to reopen its investigation into Morgellons disease.
We are confident that, with the reopening of this investigation, Canada will formally recognize Morgellons disease for what it is:
A renewed Canadian investigation has the capacity to influence international recognition — reaching the World Health Organization (WHO) — and advancing proper research and patient care for all Morgellons patients worldwide.
Morgellons United will see this mission through to the very end.
Show your support and sign our petition today — you will be directly contributing to the worldwide validation of Morgellons disease.
OUR LETTER: Requesting Canada’s Federal Minister of Health to review all scientific literature and fulfill the obligation to direct the Public Health Agency of Canada to reopen their Morgellons investigation — advancing formal recognition as a physical illness — and supporting proper patient care and fair treatment worldwide.
Over a decade of peer-reviewed scientific research demonstrates that Morgellons disease is a physical condition, characterized by unique skin fibers composed of keratin and collagen originating from the human body. This body of evidence conclusively disproves the longstanding psychiatric classification as it establishes a clear biological pathology.
Mobilizing public pressure where it matters. Sign this petition to demand government action: reopen the Morgellons disease investigation, review the scientific evidence and publicly commit to state-funded research and, above all, proper medical care: testing, diagnosis, disability, support, and treatment - for those suffering.
Morgellons United Founder and dedicated patient advocate for Morgellons recognition and validation.
