According to the New York Times, 30 specialists from the state department, FBI and Pentagon, with medical, intelligence, counter-terrorism and communications expertise, have been sent to Nigeria.
In many African countries, those at risk often have to spend huge amounts of money and travel hundreds of miles to reach heart specialists concentrated in main urban centres.
The sick and pregnant must travel by boat to Bandar Abbas to see specialists.
However, in Hungary's cash-strapped hospitals, such a move has proved divisive, as new doctors who have signed five-year handcuff agreements can now be earning more than senior specialists.
Back in London, I find a 2008 paper on morgellons in the journal Dermatologic Therapy that describes patients picking "at their skin continuously in order to 'extract' an organism"; "obsessive cleaning rituals, showering often" and individuals going "to many physicians, such as infectious disease specialists and dermatologists" – all behaviours "consistent with DOP".
Join a panel of communications specialists and journalists to answer these questions and more on Thursday 26 February, 1-3pm.
And if roughing it is not your style, it may be worth paying a bit more to travel with one of the upmarket specialists, such as Abercrombie & Kent (abercrombiekent.co.uk), Cox & Kings (coxandkings.co.uk) or Bales (balesworldwide.com).
The charity's successes included funding a tuition and tailoring centre in India, a medical clinic in Ghana and a school in Cameroon, as well as helping to fund the education of hundreds of individuals who have become architects, doctors, teachers and medical specialists.
Many have seen a big rise in the number of evening attractions such as restaurants, bars and clubs as the presence of traditional specialists selling clothes, flowers or even newspapers has waned.
15 December 2006 More than 300 police officers and specialists work on the murder investigation, receiving a total of more than 7,300 telephone calls.
Accounts associated with his firm, Bell Pottinger, have been caught scrubbing Wikipedia profiles of arms manufacturers, financial firms, a Russian oligarch and the founder of libel specialists Carter-Ruck.
