{"id":303697,"date":"2026-05-07T03:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/303697\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T03:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:26:09","slug":"fresno-county-confirms-suspected-scabies-outbreak-at-fowler-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/303697\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno County confirms suspected scabies outbreak at Fowler school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, May 7, 2026 3:03AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Fresno County confirms suspected scabies outbreak at Fowler school\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Fresno County public health officials have confirmed a suspected scabies outbreak at a school in the Fowler Unified School District, affecting five individuals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Fresno County Department of Public Health and Fowler Unified School District said the cases were confirmed in April at a Fowler school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to the CDC, scabies is an infestation of the skin by a human itch mite. The condition can cause intense itching and a pimple-like skin rash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Health officials said the department worked with the school to identify anyone with symptoms, coordinate care and clean the impacted campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Officials said no cases have been reported outside of the affected school site and that the risk to the general public remains low.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, May 7, 2026 3:03AM FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Fresno County public health officials have confirmed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[128084,8291,4735,128082,112,622,114,113,19702,69484,128081,128083,294],"class_list":["post-303697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-128084","tag-cdc","tag-department-of-public-health","tag-fowler-unified-school-district","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-county","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-health-officials","tag-public-health-alert","tag-scabies-outbreak","tag-skin-infestation","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}