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The Montfort Hospital has one patient with scabies, and a few hospital staff have symptoms which may indicate they have it too.
Scabies is an extremely itchy skin condition caused by tiny mites that burrow under the skin. It is extremely contagious, spreading through skin-to-skin contact.
“There is one confirmed case with a patient.” The case was confirmed Tuesday, said hospital spokeswoman Geneviève Picard. Before getting the lab confirmation the hospital started taking measures to prevent the spread, she said.
The staff cases are unconfirmed.
“It’s the summer; it could be poison ivy; it could be mosquitoes. So we didn’t take any chances. We just gave the treatment to everyone,” she said.
Treatment is an over-the-counter cream applied at night that kills the mites.
Picard said the hospital wants people to know it’s safe to come to the hospital since scabies does not spread through the air like an infectious disease.
It’s the first case at the Montfort in recent years, she said, though she has heard of sporadic other cases at other hospitals. Scabies is not on the list of infections that hospitals must report, so there are no records to check.
The patient with scabies is in 3C, a ward for surgical patients.
Scabies mites are nearly invisible — less than half a millimetre long. They have eight legs.
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Scabies is an extremely itchy skin condition caused by tiny mites that burrow under the skin. It is extremely contagious, spreading through skin-to-skin contact.
“There is one confirmed case with a patient.” The case was confirmed Tuesday, said hospital spokeswoman Geneviève Picard. Before getting the lab confirmation the hospital started taking measures to prevent the spread, she said.
The staff cases are unconfirmed.
“It’s the summer; it could be poison ivy; it could be mosquitoes. So we didn’t take any chances. We just gave the treatment to everyone,” she said.
Treatment is an over-the-counter cream applied at night that kills the mites.
Picard said the hospital wants people to know it’s safe to come to the hospital since scabies does not spread through the air like an infectious disease.
It’s the first case at the Montfort in recent years, she said, though she has heard of sporadic other cases at other hospitals. Scabies is not on the list of infections that hospitals must report, so there are no records to check.
The patient with scabies is in 3C, a ward for surgical patients.
Scabies mites are nearly invisible — less than half a millimetre long. They have eight legs.
tspears@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/TomSpears1
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