{"id":785720,"date":"2026-09-28T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785720\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T22:28:08","slug":"scabies-outbreak-at-prince-philip-hospital-closes-wards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785720\/","title":{"rendered":"Scabies outbreak at Prince Philip hospital closes wards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Welsh hospital has restricted visitors and closed two wards following an outbreak of scabies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hywel Dda health board said the wards at Prince Philip Hospital in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, were currently closed &#8220;due to infection&#8221;, with restrictions on visitors put in place on Sunday to limit the spread.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scabies is a highly contagious skin infestation caused by microscopic mites that burrow under the skin and spread through close skin contact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/scabies\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the NHS, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The health board said a number of cases were being managed in healthcare and community settings across its area &#8211; which covers Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, and Pembrokeshire &#8211; but the risk to the wider public remained low. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scabies is a common skin condition and can affect people of all ages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It causes itching, especially at night, as well as a raised rash or spots which usually spread across the whole body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unlike bed bugs, scabies mites are not visible to the human eye and they are also not caused by poor hygiene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Welsh hospital has restricted visitors and closed two wards following an outbreak of scabies. Hywel Dda health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-785720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}