It was, says 48-year-old Andrea Dowden, 'one of the worst experiences of my life'. The raised, red scabs, which seemed to ...

Medically reviewed by William Truswell, MD Scabies is caused by tiny mites called Sarcoptes scabiei. They spread through skin ...

Scabies treatments for 140 inmates in a housing unit of the Utah State Correctional Facility temporarily closed some areas to ...

The number of cases reported last year nearly doubled while the true extent of infections, the spread of the highly ...

The Lowell Transitional Living Center, the largest homeless shelter and support organization north of Boston, is treating an outbreak of scabies in its building on Middlesex Street, ...

Approximately 140 inmates at the Utah State Correctional Facility in Salt Lake City are under quarantine after one inmate tested positive for scabies.

Inmates in two sections of the Utah State Prison are being treated for scabies after one inmate tested positive. Some areas ...

Last year, 51 cases of the disease were reported to officials - nearly half of which originated in nursing homes.

A scabies outbreak at the Utah State Correctional Facility has prompted the closure of visitor areas and the quarantine of ...

On a recent drive back from Denver International Airport, I saw a coyote running through a prairie-dog town. It was the fifth coyote I saw that morning between Estes Park and Denver, but this one ...

A new tool to test for scabies is being trialled by doctors in the Northern Territory, with researchers hoping early ...

Clinical and in vitro resistance to ivermectin has now been documented and there are concerns regarding the increasing tolerance of scabies mites to permethrin. There is an urgent need to define ...