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.

Getting a bug bite can be a concerning experience, especially if you dont know what type of tiny creature left you with that red, throbbing welt on your skin. Dont panic most bug bites and stings from ...

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 ...

It causes an itchy rash spread through close skin contact and is very hard to get rid of - and doctors often fail to diagnose ...

At Brazil's Butantan Institute, Ricardo Bassini-Silva identified mite larvae feeding on a millimeter-scale specimen in the museum's archive.

People are being warned of what to look for as cases of a Victorian disease are on the rise. Doctors recorded nearly 900 people with it across the UK just last week, around 20% more than this time ...

Families have been warned to look out for a contagious disease with few early symptoms. New figures show there were almost 900 cases of the highly infectious condition in a single week. This is around ...

Being able to spot clear signs of the skin condition ensures people get prompt treatment and stop the spread A HIGHLY contagious Victorian disease now rife in the UK can silently rip through families ...

DALLAS – A rash of threats against schools across North Texas over the past week has caused heightened security — and heightened stress — at dozens of campuses. All the recent threats were determined ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scabies cases are rising across the UK, with health experts warning that the highly contagious skin infestation is spreading more ...

Cases of scabies are rising across the UK, with health experts struggling to account for the sudden increase. In the second week of January, GPs reported just under 900 cases of scabies across England ...