Scabies

It's a real fear for a lot of people – being stuck on an airplane because another passenger might have a highly contagious disease. But the woman whose rash caused passengers on a Delta Airlines flight from Detroit to Chicago to be quarantined on...

Part of Cook County Jail and its hospital have been isolated because of an outbreak of lice and scabies, officials announced today. A total of 15 inmates, 10 in Division II of the jail and 5 in the mental health unit of Cermak Hospital, have been...

After more than 15 years sleeping on the streets of Pasadena, it was a brush with death and a lengthy recovery at Huntington Memorial Hospital that helped Timothy Blakney — a persistent freeway off-ramp panhandler known as "Popeye" for his gruff...

MILWAUKEE - The federal government has launched a new livestock identification program to help agriculture officials to quickly track livestock in cases of disease. It is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's second attempt at implementing such a system,...

Fort Hays State University is working to contain and treat students after a scabies outbreak. The school confirmed three cases of students with scabies, and they're working to determine if other students are infected. Scabies is a skin parasite that...

Classes resumed at a technical college in northwest Kansas after a scabies scare closed the campus. A case was confirmed last Thursday, prompting health officials and the administration to shut down Northwest Kansas Technical College. More than 250...

The campus of Northwest Kansas Technical College is closed until Tuesday because of several cases of scabies. The school says Tuesday a student went to the administration with symptoms of scabies.  Wednesday, other cases showed up at the Goodland...

“Duck Dynasty” airs at 10pm ET Wednesdays on A&E. Who knows if tonight's pair of Duck Dynasty episodes will equal last week's unfathomable 8.6 million audience, but if not, it won't be because of quality. “Shot Thru the Heart”...

Los Angeles police issued a warning over the weekend to officers who patrol the Skid Row area warning them to wear protective masks and minimize face-to-face contact with suspects or the public if there is reason to believe that they are infected...

Stetson University is urging students living on campus and elsewhere to stop sharing towels and bed linens after an outbreak of scabies during the fall semester. Just weeks into the spring semester, officials said they already have seen a number of...

This week's Dance Moms is all about home. Wanting to get there. Being left there. Has Sophia gone back there? We even get a look at Abby's. Or at least the garage. To start, the gang — minus Sophia — has gathered just in time for the...

BUHOMA, Uganda — As a wildlife veterinarian for the Ugandan government, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka had dedicated her life to saving the mountain gorilla. She soon realized that if these rare great apes were to survive, she would need to focus on a much...