NewsDesk @bactiman63 Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reports that they and other health organizations present in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar in Southeastern Bangladesh have been trying...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The number of people with scabies is growing again. The peak is at its highest since early December. Currently, 42 out of 100,000 people suffer from the skin disease, reports research...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Officials with the University of North Florida Student Health Services reported 13 students required treatment for infestation or exposure to scabies, according to the school newspaper,...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The first country-wide mass drug administration in the world for the treatment of scabies is happening in the Solomon Islands. The World Scabies Program is spearheading the mass drug...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 An anti-parasitic drug will be rolled out on mass scale in the Solomon Islands to prevent scabies, a contagious, intensely itchy skin condition that affects a third of the nation’s...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Uganda officials report more than 1,000 people in sixteen villages in Hoima district are battling a fresh outbreak of scabies– Nyakabingo, Bineneza, Kalyango, Kigawa, Bugandale,...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Ministry of Public Health in Haiti (MSPP), or Ministè Sante Piblik ak Popilasyon has activated the “epidemiological alert” system, after detecting a skin infection...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 One dose of an anti-parasite drug was just as effective as two at significantly reducing the spread of scabies, the contagious, intensely itchy skin condition, according to a new...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63  The number of scabies cases on the island of Mallorca have skyrocketed in 2021 to date with some 9,000 cases recorded to date. This is nearly double the number reported in...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63  Seville dermatologists warn of the increase in scabies cases that are being experienced. The strict confinements, a result of the COVID-19 pandemic mitigation efforts, is being...