Was it a chigger or scabies bite? These mite bites both result in itching, but that's where the similarities end. Here's what ...

Cases of scabies are on the rise in the UK as students ... but do not kill it – that cause disease in humans. They’re similar to head lice but smaller in size. They burrow under the skin ...

For humans, you only need ... the mite-killing oral medication ivermectin, with a second dose given roughly two weeks later. People suffering from scabies are encouraged to see a GP (Picture ...

This is what doctors are saying as cases of scabies are rising. From the year to April, there were 3,689 confirmed hospital ...

Joe, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, was isolated after being infected with scabies, his legal team told The Dallas Morning News. Per the Mayo Clinic, scabies is a “contagious skin ...

This story has been updated with additional information. Tiger King’s Joe Exotic, who is incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, was recently placed in quarantine after being ...

Fortunately, the further development of an animal model for human scabies is currently ... of emerging permethrin and ivermectin resistance in scabies endemic communities. This is important ...

The Dallas Morning News on Tuesday received confirmation from the prison that one of its housing units had experienced a scabies outbreak. One of Maldonado-Passage's lawyers told the Morning News ...

Two new studies found that ancient human ancestors carried a surprising diversity of genes for amylase, an enzyme that breaks down starch. By Carl Zimmer As soon as you put starch in your mouth ...

But how—and why—is this 1:1 ratio achieved? A new paper searches huge human data sets for gene variants that throw the 1:1 sex ratio off balance, and test the biological and theoretical rules ...

For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, killing many construction workers who were building the Kenya-Uganda railway.