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Upsurge in scabies: why this “shameful disease” should “be taken into account much better”

2024-03-18T09:36:10.253Z

Highlights: Upsurge in scabies: why this “shameful disease” should “be taken into account much better”. “Converging elements” point to a resurgence of this disease, which sometimes causes shame. Doctors want the pooh pooh to be removed from the word ‘scabies’. It's a shame for an establishment to say that it has cases of scabies, just like for a hotel to say it has bedbugs!


“Converging elements” point to a resurgence of this disease, which sometimes causes shame. The doctors want the po


“The students were a little panicked, some teachers no longer really wanted to go to class…” This employee of a high school in Hauts-de-France will long remember her first outbreak of “scabies”, at the beginning of February .

This skin disease forced the school to close the affected class for several days.

“He did not want to communicate too much on the subject, particularly with parents,” adds our interlocutor.

No wonder Sandrine Capizzi, lecturer in parasitology at the Faculty of Pharmacy in Nancy: "It's a shame for an establishment to say that it has cases of scabies, just like for a hotel to say that it has bedbugs!

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