Take a look at this number: at least 200 million people worldwide suffer from scabies at any one time. In 2017, the World Health Organization classified scabies as a neglected tropical disease due to ...

Dr Jo Middleton receives funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) through its Applied Research Collaboration Kent, Surrey, Sussex (NIHR200179). The views expressed are ...

Scabies cases are surging across the UK and Europe. The tiny mites that cause it spread easily through skin contact, making children, young adults, and elderly people particularly vulnerable.

A lack of understanding about what scabies is and how it’s treated could be behind the United Kingdom’s sudden spike in cases, experts say. When we think of scabies, we tend to think of 19th-century ...

A significant increase in scabies, a skin infection caused by mites, was recorded three years ago, data tabled in parliament by Health Minister Jo Etienne Abela shows. In 2023, the incidence rate for ...

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Jane said scabies caused her "intense itching" and was difficult to get rid of A woman who had scabies has described the experience as a "nightmare" as figures show a rise in reported cases of the ...

A woman who had scabies has described the experience as a "nightmare" as figures show a rise in reported cases of the parasitic infestation. Jane Grandon, from Caerphilly, said scabies - caused by ...