Treatment for scabies includes a medication called a scabicide to kill the mites. Washing all worn clothes and bedding in hot water prevents reinfection. Scratching the rash too much increases the ...

When we think of scabies, we tend to think of 19th-century London: its gloomy streets swollen with people covered in rashes, vehemently scratching themselves. But scabies is far from an itch-inducing ...