Scabies sows panic in a clinic in Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne). Four cases of scabies have been reported among staff at the Pont de Chaume establishment, reports The Midday Dispatch. These infections are reviving concern when last summer eight health professionals had already been infected by this parasite within the same clinic. The management of the establishment wishes to reassure: the patient population does not run risk of contamination since all the measures to eradicate the parasite have been taken to put a stop to this fall recurrence.
No infected patient
Washing sheets at high temperature, disinfecting rooms, disinsecting furniture … The device had already been put in place this summer after the first cases, in conjunction with the Regional Health Agency (ARS) and occupational medicine. But actions seem to have been in vain to find the exact origin of this contamination. “In recent days, the observed recurrence of the phenomenon in four members of the staff initially concerned requires us to renew the application of the same health measures. […] No contamination having been declared in our patients “, points out the director of the establishment, Didier Godec, questioned by La Dépêche du midi.
Scabies is a highly contagious condition caused by a parasite, a mite called a sarcopte. This disease is transmitted by direct contact with an infected person and also by contact with the patient’s personal objects (bedding, sheets, clothes, etc.).
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