In recent months, Naveed Ijaz, a general practitioner specializing in dermatology, has seen a growing number of patients presenting at his clinic in Manchester, UK, with intensely itchy rashes. Their cause is scabies, a highly contagious skin condition caused by the Sarcoptes scabiei mite, which can result in these itchy rashes spreading all across the body.
“I am extremely concerned, chiefly because of the shortage of treatments available,” says Ijaz. “Outbreaks tend to occur more so over the winter months, as people tend to spend more time together indoors. The shortage of available treatments compounds this.”
While scabies is extremely common, affecting approximately 200 million people worldwide, cases across England are
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