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 ...

Doctors are debating if the itchy skin disease is becoming resistant to its main treatment, but there could be other factors helping it spread ...

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 ...

When we think of scabies, we tend to think of 19th-century London: its gloomy streets swollen with people covered in rashes, vehemently scratching themselves. But scabies is far from an itch-inducing ...