Fort Osage Alerts Parents To Scabies Cases (KMBC-TV Kansas City)

The Fort Osage School District alerted parents to a scabies at Elm Grove Elementary School.

Sawmill workers in line for help (The New Zealand Herald)

A group of former sawmill workers look to have won a long battle to have their health concerns recognised after many were exposed to a toxic timber treatment more than 20 years ago.

From BBC Health (BBC News)

Get the facts on sex infections

Social Disease Networking Lets People Own Up Anonymously (TechNewsWorld.com)

In an era when people routinely deliver life-changing news via text and e-mail -- "I want a divorce," "I'm pregnant," "You're fired" -- it is perhaps inevitable that a service offering to automate and anonymize a personal, painful message is gaining traction. inSpot allows people to send free e-cards to sexual partners informing them that they have been exposed to an STD.

Fort Osage Alerts Parents To Scabies Cases

The Fort Osage School District alerted parents to a scabies at Elm Grove Elementary School.

Red&raucous

Cloaked in anonymity using aliases, the Dead Schembechlers - Biafra , Bo Thunders , Bo Vicious and Bo Scabies - are rumored to be Ohio State University graduates who emerge yearly to play a Columbus gig the day ...

Dr. Mallika's Files: Case Of The Itchy Rash

Nov 10, 2008 9:49 am US/Eastern Each week Dr. Mallika Marshall shares cases based on true stories from a local urgent care clinic, exclusively on wbztv.com. Names and identifiable characteristics of patients ...

Scabies

Scabies mites are very fastidious. They can only live off of a host body for 24 to 36 hours under most conditions.

Have you been tested?

Where is the student health center? Not many students, including myself, know. I had to ask about five fellow students before finding out where it is located.

A Close Look at Parasitic Diseases

It's a disease caused by a living plant or animal called a parasite. The parasite lives in or on the body of another plant or animal and feeds on it's tissues.

Scabies ruled out at Malden schools, Oak leaf mite suspect

The Malden school district, along with the Dunklin County Health Department, have enlisted the help of other partners to determine what might be causing the rashes seen in the students and staff at Malden R-1. ...

What's Going Around

In this week's what's going around, we begin in Page County where something that it is actually quite common is making its rounds.

Samples from Students at Local School Test Negative for Scabies

Several children in the Malden school district have been showing symptoms of scabies.

Suspected case of scabies outbreak at Malden schools

A few weeks ago, Malden School District nurses began seeing students complaining of itching and a rash.