Treatment for scabies includes a medication called a scabicide to kill the mites. Washing all worn clothes and bedding in hot water prevents reinfection. Scratching the rash too much increases the ...

Health officials say the highly contagious skin infection continues to affect large numbers of children due to close contact ...

Fiji is ramping up efforts to eliminate scabies as a public health concern, with new national guidelines, stronger ...

Scabies is a common skin condition caused by microscopic mites that burrow into the skin to live and lay eggs. The condition spreads primarily through prolonged, direct skin-to-skin contact with an ...

Scabies is a red rash with small bumps, itching, blistering, and scaling. Scabies mites create burrows under the skin that ...

Scabies is spreading widely among children as it thrives in Fiji’s tropical climate and due to close contact among students ...

Despite improvements in public health, scabies continues to affect many children across Fiji, with some health centres reporting infection rates of up to 50 per cent.

There have been no additional cases of scabies at Airway Heights Corrections Center, according to the prison's communications director Chris Wright. Wright also said the 19 people diagnosed with ...