When Jane Mundye rang her GP in tears over her incessant itch, she was at her wits' end. Having first gone to her doctor with what she assumed were insect bites, she was told it was an allergy.
Imagine waking up to a map of red, itchy welts across your arms. By lunchtime, they’ve vanished from your arms only to reappear on your legs, stinging and burning like a fresh brush with a nettle. You ...
At Brazil's Butantan Institute, Ricardo Bassini-Silva identified mite larvae feeding on a millimeter-scale specimen in the museum's archive.