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Several doctors in the Netherlands prescribe the controversial anti-scabies medicine Ivermectin to Long Covid patients, NPO Radio 1 journalists found in an investigation for their podcast Long Covid en de kwakzalverindustrie. The NPO Radio 1 journalists went undercover as Long Covid patients and found a Dutch doctor who prescribed Ivermectin to them. One Long Covid patient told the journalists that …

Scabies cases rising again in Netherlands, especially among toddlers in Overijssel

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The flu epidemic in the Netherlands is continuing further into 2023. Last week, general practitioners saw 66 patients with flu-like symptoms for every 100,000 residents. Last week, research institute Nivel reported 70 residents with flu-like symptoms for every 100,000 inhabitants. The RIVM, the Dutch public health institute, generally considers an epidemic to be ongoing when more than 58 out of …

The number of scabies cases in the Netherlands has quadrupled since the end of 2021. Health service GGD is expanding its scabies consultation hours and working on a PCR test to diagnose the skin condition more quickly, AT5 reports. “It is common among students who live together and have many changing intimate contacts,” De Vries said. “If people walk and …