scabies

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Health workers have been struggling for more than year to contain a scabies outbreak and manage a tenfold increase in dengue fever.

From Washington Post

When he’s not convinced that he has parasites, he consults experts about the possibility of scabies or Lyme or Morgellons disease; the last is a condition that some doctors consider a delusion.

From Washington Post

Some barter for medicine on social media or use herbal remedies instead as preventable diseases such as scabies spread due to a lack of adequate treatment.

From Reuters

Cubans interviewed by the BBC last week said some medical centres do not have any aspirin, while the island has seen outbreaks of scabies and other infectious diseases.

From BBC

Around 40 migrants were affected by fuel burns, dehydration, hypothermia and infected scabies.

From Reuters