It looks like the mysterious Morgellons Disease is finally being taken seriously by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Just to recap, sufferers of Morgellons report sensations of insect-like object scuttling beneath their skins and fibrous filaments oozing out of open wounds. A lot of doctors dismissed it as being all in the patients’ heads, however, and said it was most likely a common psychological disorder called “delusions of parasitosis.” But the reports kept coming in, and the Morgellons Research Foundation, a non-profit organization that raises public awareness about the disease, say they have recorded over 2,000 cases.

Now, after a year or more of pressure from alleged sufferers of the disease, the CDC is launching a study of Morgellons in South Texas, where more than 100 people are reported to have it. The CDC study will aim to determine whether Morgellons is a real disease or just a shared psychosis.

“Either way, it’s a public health threat,” CDC spokesman Dan Rutz told the Charlotte Observer.