U.S. to Study Bizarre Medical Condition

January 16, 2008 By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer

(AP) -- It sounds like a freakish ailment from a horror movie: Sores erupt on your skin, mysterious threads pop out of them, and you feel like tiny bugs are crawling all over you.

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