The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has reported a significant rise in scabies cases presenting at GP surgeries ...

While scabies does not kill many people, it is an unpleasant infection that causes significant impact on quality of life.

The NHS has issued its urgent advice on a highly contagious skin disease after Brits were issued a warning over the 'spike' ...

Scabies, a highly contagious skin infestation caused by parasitic mite burrowing in the skin, is on the rise across the UK. GPs in England are now warning the public not to ignore an itchy rash which ...

Scabies can be treated with a medicated cream or lotion to kill the mites, such as permethrin cream, and can require more ...

Luckily, scabies isn't usually a serious condition but it does require treatment. Professor Hawthorne advised: "The treatment ...

You can visit your pharmacist and get permethrin or malathion.’ These are topical creams that you apply ... Overuse might be one of the reasons we have a short supply with scabies treatment ...

Doctors in the United Kingdom are sounding the alarm over a dramatic rise in scabies cases, urging residents not to dismiss ...

It's important to read the instructions carefully." This treatment must be repeated a week later. "Scabies is very infectious, but it can take up to 8 weeks for the rash to appear," the NHS continues.

All but two reported shortages of permethrin and malathion ... “The shortage of scabies treatments is something that urgently needs more attention. “The public health calculation is not ...