Veteranarian connections

mentioned in the Xfile article i believe......

William stood on the sidewalk chain smoking cigarrettes as he paced waiting for Bob;

"I thought you quit" Bob said when he pulled into the lot and got out of his official car.

"Sorry to bother you on a Sunday, but I didn't think this could wait" William said in way of greeting.....

William led him inside where he showed him the dog; DeeDee and Mike Devaney's beloved White German Shepherd lay prone in the kennel; unmoving and covered in a billowy cotton candy like {mat} of fibers...

"What the...."??

"They brought him in Friday. He wouldn't stop chewing his paws and scratching his ears. It was so bad that we had to sedate him. My weekend feeder called me this afternoon after she came in and found him like this."

"I see him quite often but never have I seen anything like this or the scratching, that is new. He has terminal lung cancer. It seems that the Devaney's yard is contaminated with a fungus which got into his lungs when he would go outside and dig around the yard. I never expected that it would transform into something like this....and I'm not sure that this is related to that; I'm just flumoxed by all this."

a pastor of a large evangelical church who contracts symptoms after visiting a 12 yo in the hospital girl......she eventually kills herself in despair......he is eventually taken to a 'healing crusade' by a well-meaning collegue

wheelchair bound college professor of psychology.....collegues believe that he has delusional parasitosis until they begin to experience the same syndrome

the urban gangsta.....everyone thinks that he is in withdrawals and tweeking from Meth when he gets symptoms

Outline:

5 different persons/situations/settings

an intake referred by Children's Hospital for OCD and parasitiosis

a gang member in urban downtown

a wheelchair bound

All are disbelieved and form a cohesive group via the Internet

a skywatcher notices a large number of meteors which hit over Walker Co.....use a pseudonym....

the dust of the ground infects animals which in turn infect humans

At a certain time in 2012 an epidemic breaks out.....respiratory? The fibers begin to envelop the bodies they inhabit.....but they are covered up when found.....government conspiracy and cover-up.....

The bodies begin to change......

The epidemic worsens....

With a nod to Outbreak and the Idiot's guide, it is tied to an experiment unleashed by genetic engineering to increase agricultural production.....

Morgellons Mystery

Title will change soon, I'm sure.

Was reading Mental Floss and Idiot's Guide to 2012 today at BAM when I came across something I had never heard of before.....Morgellon's.....a disease that purports to shoot out fibers from under the skin, often after the person has been diagnosed as having Psychotic Parasitosis and/or OCD, etc.

The Idiot's guide said that the fibers have never been seen before and contain DNA; they likened it to some sort of Agra-bacteria which was developed and used in genetic engineering for agriculture.

My mind began to turn with possibilites for a scifi story of the Body Snatchers bent.....especially with 2012 coming up.

Let's see what I can come up with: