In recent months, Naveed Ijaz, a general practitioner specializing in dermatology, has seen a growing number of patients presenting at his clinic in Manchester, UK, with intensely itchy rashes. Their cause is scabies, a highly contagious skin condition caused by the Sarcoptes scabiei mite, which can result in these itchy rashes spreading all across the body. The shortage of available …
More people have scabies but embarrassment about the condition is making it difficult to stop spread and reinfection, particularly among students, experts have said. ‘A scabies infection can drive people to despair,’ dermatologist Annemie Galimont told broadcaster NOS. But having scabies is ‘just bad luck’, not an indictment of people’s general hygiene. But business people in expensive hotels can get …
