Cases of scabies – a parasitic skin condition once associated with poor hygiene and crowded living conditions – are on the ...

Scabies is an itchy rash caused by the human itch mite. Adults, children and babies can all get scabies. Many people believe scabies is about cleanliness, but that is not true. It is easily passed ...

The latest 17-year brood of cicadas is invading, bringing millions if not billions of the noisy insects to Cincinnati and southwest Ohio. However, cicadas can attract a pest, the oak leaf itch mite.

The UK Health and Security Agency has found that cases of the disease, which has been present in the UK for centuries, have ...

You are pretty lucky it's the one in a thousand Dr.Mole article that's about a pretty benign disease – you wouldn't want to be posting this under the one with the brain amoebas ;-) If it's anything ...

This year's cicada emergence was a double whammy of insects, with two groups of periodical cicadas that only come out of the ground every 13 or 17 years making a simultaneous appearance. But even ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) — If you thought problems with pesky cicadas were gone, guess again. It now appears people are getting bites and rashes from a mite which feeds on cicada eggs. The Oak Leaf Itch ...