Sentence examples for scabies from inspiring English sources

Oklahoma's governor, Mary Fallin, complains of chickenpox, scabies and lice among children brought to her state.

These days, water-borne, hygiene- and sanitation-related diseases are one of the main scourges in Walumbe, including diarrhea, malaria, scabies, trachoma and bilharzia (the latter may even be linked to the high rate of HIV/AIDS here, say scientists).

Médecins Sans Frontières, a charity, recently reported untreated cases of scabies and hepatitis among inmates.

Diseases in epidemic proportions included leprosy, bubonic plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, scabies, erysipelas, anthrax, trachoma, sweating sickness, and dancing mania (see infection).

Scabies, also called sarcoptic itch, skin inflammation accompanied by severe nighttime itching caused by the itch mite (Sarcoptes scabiei var. hominis).

Scabies, which is caused by the mite Sarcoptes scabiei, is usually acquired through close personal contact, especially sexual contact.

Although most persons develop an immunologic reaction to scabies, acquired immunity is poor or nonexistent, and recurring attacks are common.

Diseases such as take-all of cereals (Ophiobolus graminis); charcoal rot of corn, sorghum, and soybean (Macrophomina phaseoli); common scab of potato (Streptomyces scabies); and onion white rot (Sclerotium cepivorum) are most severe under low soil-moisture levels.

Scabies is characteristically a disease of wartime, for living standards then drop, washing may be difficult, and people may be crowded together.

To the same period belong the strange and poetically experimental Sylva in scabiem (1475; "Trees with Mildew"), in which he describes realistically the symptoms of scabies.

"Scabies is also a huge problem," Dr Bakir says.