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Posted: 5:49 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011
Hospital treats patients for scabies outbreak
FAYETTE COUNTY, Ga. ?
Fayette County's Piedmont Hospital sent more than a dozen employees home and treated almost everyone on the staff to prevent the spread of scabies.
Scabies is a contagious skin rash that can cause intense itching. It is caused by a microscopic mite which burrows into the top layers of skin where it lives, lays eggs and causes itching and a pimple like rash.
The infection was brought into the hospital by a patient during Thanksgiving week.
Channel 2's Diana Davis found out today the hospital treated about 900 employees as a precaution.
More...
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/hospital-treats-patients-scabies-outbreak/nFxs4/
Hospital treats patients for scabies outbreak
FAYETTE COUNTY, Ga. ?
Fayette County's Piedmont Hospital sent more than a dozen employees home and treated almost everyone on the staff to prevent the spread of scabies.
Scabies is a contagious skin rash that can cause intense itching. It is caused by a microscopic mite which burrows into the top layers of skin where it lives, lays eggs and causes itching and a pimple like rash.
The infection was brought into the hospital by a patient during Thanksgiving week.
Channel 2's Diana Davis found out today the hospital treated about 900 employees as a precaution.
More...
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/hospital-treats-patients-scabies-outbreak/nFxs4/