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New skin disorder drawing attention

When federal health officials announced earlier this month they would begin looking into a relatively new, unexplained illness, biochemist Vitaly Citovsky of Stony Brook University had been studying the unusual condition for a year.

The disorder, called Morgellons by some of its sufferers, and fiber disease by others, is characterized by a disparate range of symptoms. The most striking: non-healing...

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