Why the housing shortage exacerbates scabies in Indigenous communities
- Written by: Simon Quilty, General and Acute Care Physician and Senior Lecturer, Flinders University, Katherine Hospital campus, Flinders University
Scabies is a disease of antiquity, one of the scourges of those on the First Fleet but no longer known for most in Australian society. However, in the far remote Northern Territory, scabies infection remains endemic, and in some regions almost 70% of Aboriginal children in remote areas had been infected within their first year of life.
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