Focus: Infection Control

Scabies outbreak reported at Ohio hospital

The disease was spread at Kettering partly by objects that were infested with itch mites


Eighty-six employees at the Kettering Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio, have been diagnosed with scabies, according to an article on the Springfield News Sun website.

 

The hospital outbreak was traced back to one patient, but so far no other patients have been diagnosed with the disease.

 

Scabies is usually spread by direct, prolonged, skin-to-skin contact with a person who has scabies. But it was also spread at Kettering by objects that were infested with itch mites.

 

Kettering has contracted with an outside company to conduct a deep cleaning of the entire hospital, Long said.

 

Read the article.

 

 

 



February 9, 2017


Topic Area: Infection Control


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