While a dozen cases of scabies have been identified in the geriatrics department of Montbéliard hospital, it is now seven residents of a retirement home in Belfort who are believed to be infected.
Scabies is on the rise in eastern France! This affection contagious benign skin caused by sarcopte, a tiny parasite of the mite family, has new victims. After an initial assessment of 12 contaminations, 19 people have now been infected with the parasite.
It all began on August 7, when a dozen cases were identified in the geriatrics department of the Montbéliard Hospital Center, in Franche Comté. At the same time, there are seven new contaminations from residents of the Claude Pompidou retirement home in Belfort. A surprising fact, because according to Damien Oudot, communication manager of the establishment, “ we know that no patient left the hospital for the retirement home, but we do not yet know if a visitor could have gone from one establishment to another ”. We understood it well, cHealth professionals are not yet able to establish the source of the infectious focus and the correlation between the two epidemics.
Anyway, a vigilance unit has already been set up. “As soon as the scabies were suspected, the hospital took appropriate measures to avoid any risk of contamination to other services as well as to patients and nursing staff on the site and outside,” reports the Republican East. Thus, the patients received treatment with Stroméctol, but also an ointment and a spray, according to national health recommendations. Any new admission to the geriatric ward has been postponed until Monday.
If in doubt, know that typical signs of scabies only appear after incubation. of three weeks on average. Plseveral symptoms can be indicative of common scab, especially if a epidemic has come out in a community you frequent.
Scabies are itchy and sore skin. But, at lhe affected children under two years of age have specific signs: commotion, crying and disturbed sleep; pearly vesicles (often superinfected) on the soles of the feet and palms of the hands, in the armpits, navel, buttocks, even arms, chest, thighs and head; or even scabious nodules under the armpits.
Often wrongly associated with poor hygiene, more and more cases of scabies are being diagnosed in France. According to an opinion from the High Council of Public Health, the incidence of the disease has increased by 10% since 2002.
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