Eight years after the World Health Organization (WHO) classified scabies as a neglected tropical disease, it continues to pose a global public health challenge, particularly among children, ...

Human scabies is a debilitating skin disease caused by Sarcoptes scabei, known by several names such as "itch mite." At any given time, the worldwide burden of disease is about 300,000,000 people. It ...

According to one doctor, the UK and London in particular is seeing a surge in the number of cases of the skin condition.

Residents in a private nursing home suffered an outbreak of scabies over many months with poor infection control to stop the spread, an inspector's report has revealed. Scabies, which is highly ...