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They can cause a persistent, maddening itch for months or even years until you get a treatment that kills them. (There’s a reason they sometimes call scabies the seven-year itch.)
Scabies; Other names: Seven-year itch [1] Magnified view of a burrowing trail of the scabies mite. The scaly patch on the left was caused by scratching and marks the mite's entry point into the skin. The mite has burrowed to the top-right, where it can be seen as a dark spot at the end. Specialty: Infectious disease, dermatology: Symptoms
According to NHS figures, there were also 3,689 scabies cases diagnosed in hospitals in England in the year to April, marking a 73 per cent rise on the previous year, when there were 2,128 cases ...
Humans become infested by Sarcoptes scabiei var. hominis; [1] other mammals can be infested with different varieties of the mite. They include wild and domesticated dogs and cats (in which it is one cause of mange), ungulates, wild boars, bovids, wombats, [2] koalas, and great apes. [3] Human scabies mite seen under an optical microscope (x20)
Globally as of 2009, an estimated 300 million cases of scabies occur each year, although various parties claim the figure is either over- or underestimated.[16][43] About 1–10% of the global population is estimated to be infected with scabies, but in certain populations, the infection rate may be as high as 50–80%.[8]
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The virus can reactivate and begin producing large amounts of viral progeny (the lytic part of the viral life cycle) without the host becoming reinfected by new outside virus, and stays within the host indefinitely. [2] Virus latency is not to be confused with clinical latency during the incubation period when a virus is not dormant.
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