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<\/p>\nSwansea Bay University Health Board has advised anyone with concerns that they have scabies to contact their GP or local pharmacy<\/p>\n
Morriston Hospital, Swansea, where cases of scabies have been confirmed (Image: Richard Youle )<\/p>\n
Cases of scabies have been identified at Swansea’s Morriston Hospital. The health board said they were few in number and that some visiting restrictions were in place.<\/p>\n
Scabies causes a skin rash and intense itching and is caused by microscopic mites burrowing under the skin. An outbreak was recorded at Prince Philip Hospital, Llanelli<\/a>, Carmarthenshire<\/a>, last month.<\/p>\n Scabies spreads through close skin contact and often affects skin between the fingers, around the wrists, under the arms, and around the waist, groin and bottom. Never miss a Swansea story by signing up to our newsletter here<\/a><\/p>\n A spokesman for Swansea Bay University Health Board, which covers Swansea<\/a> and Neath <\/a>Port Talbot<\/a>, said: “The health board can confirm a small number of scabies cases at Morriston Hospital.<\/p>\n “Families have been informed and appropriate treatment or guidance has been provided to patients, staff, and relatives.<\/p>\n “Some visiting restrictions are in place, and we are grateful to relatives for their understanding.<\/p>\n “If anyone has concerns that they might have scabies, they can get advice from their local pharmacy or GP.”<\/p>\n An outbreak of a rare and highly contagious form of the infestation called crusted scabies affected a ward in Glangwili Hopsital, Carmarthen<\/a>, in July.<\/p>\n – Information about symptoms and treatment can be found on the NHS<\/a> 111 Wales website: https:\/\/111.wales.nhs.uk\/encyclopaedia\/s\/article\/scabies<\/p>\n Get Swansea news updates on your phone by joining our WhatsApp community here<\/a>. We occasionally treat members to special offers, promotions and ads from us and our partners. See our Privacy Notice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swansea Bay University Health Board has advised anyone with concerns that they have scabies to contact their GP…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10156,59,102,104,2966,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-819459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-carmarthenshire","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-nhs","tag-swansea","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819459","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=819459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}