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📕 Chuffed to pick up hardcopy of new @springernature Scabies book. Includes my chapter on managing institutional #scabies outbreaks from care homes to refugee camps: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-26070-4_29. Abstract + more info➡️

Middleton et al. Scabies Management in Institutions

Abstract
Scabies is a particular problem in semi-closed institutions such as residential settings for elderly people, children and those with learning disabilities; refugee camps and other settings for displaced persons; prisons; schools; hospitals and hostels. What many of these diverse places have in common is a range of transmission drivers which enable scabies to reach very high prevalence including: high densities of potential hosts, social behaviours involving prolonged contact, bed and clothes sharing, manual handling, reduced access to laundry facilities and immunocompromise. We describe the epidemiology of institutional scabies outbreaks across settings, and based primarily on recent and longstanding evidence from adult health care, we draw out general strategic priorities for case management and outbreak control. The tools and information necessary to carry out an epidemiological assessment of an institutional scabies outbreak are provided, along with guidance on control measures. A summary checklist of the key steps to take in responding to an institutional outbreak concludes the chapter.

Thank you to @nihrresearch for funding support.

This is part of the first comprehensive book on scabies, written by experts from across the world. You can order the full 31 chapter ebook and hardback for your uni/clinical library here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-26070-4

#NTDs #Scabies #Refugeehealth #carehomes #outbreakcontrol #epidemiology #publichealth #medicalacarology #acarology #prisonhealth #parisitology #globalhealth #parasites

My uncle died this morning of more conditions than I can count on both hands. I've been even less kind than usual to anti-science freaks.

Barry Sharp (@BarryESharp) tweeted,
"1. We tortured those residents
"2. There are many causes, including driving fear, cancelling surgeries and refusing to see patients face to face
"3. The experimental “vaccines” were utterly useless
"4. Hospitals were at times the quietest they have ever been
"5. K417n, says true

He was quoting AN ACTUAL SCIENTIST AND DOCTOR, Jonathan Laxton MD, FRCPC (@dr_jon_l). Dr Laxton was replying to @BarryESharp and @Doctor_Eric_B.

"1. LTC was not ideal, but not for the reasons you think
"2. Then why did the life expectancy drop in Canada
"3. the vaccine has saved millions of lives, including those in LTC
"4. Hospitals were overwhelmed during waves of infection
"5. False

This all went down at 2:20 pm EDT on May 16, 2023.

At this point, I chimed in at anti-science sh**-head with the following:

Freedom2B (@Freedom22BB)

"fylðe uncoðan āberender hwít wer raett"

and

Freedom2B (@Freedom22BB)

"ġit folc ācwealdon min ēam"

Forgive my absolute slaughter of Old English.

fylðe: filthy
uncoðan: plague
āberender: bearing
hwít: reference to my skinfolks' colour
wer: man/male
rætt: rat
ġit: you (pl)
folc: people
ācwealdon: killed
min: my
ēam: uncle

#OldEnglish
#Covid19
#masks
#vaccine
#immune
#immunity
#immunology
#epidemiology
#virology
#parisitology
#pulmonology
#grief

My uncle died this morning of more conditions than I can count on both hands. I've been even less kind than usual to anti-science freaks.

Barry Sharp (@BarryESharp) tweeted,
"1. We tortured those residents
"2. There are many causes, including driving fear, cancelling surgeries and refusing to see patients face to face
"3. The experimental “vaccines” were utterly useless
"4. Hospitals were at times the quietest they have ever been
"5. K417n, says true

He was quoting AN ACTUAL SCIENTIST AND DOCTOR, Jonathan Laxton MD, FRCPC (@dr_jon_l). Dr Laxton was replying to @BarryESharp and @Doctor_Eric_B.

"1. LTC was not ideal, but not for the reasons you think
"2. Then why did the life expectancy drop in Canada
"3. the vaccine has saved millions of lives, including those in LTC
"4. Hospitals were overwhelmed during waves of infection
"5. False

This all went down at 2:20 pm EDT on May 16, 2023.

At this point, I chimed in at anti-science sh**-head with the following:

Freedom2B (@Freedom22BB)

"fylðe uncoðan āberender hwít wer raett"

and

Freedom2B (@Freedom22BB)

"ġit folc ācwealdon min ēam"

Forgive my absolute slaughter of Old English.

fylðe: filthy
uncoðan: plague
āberender: bearing
hwít: reference to my skinfolks' colour
wer: man/male
rætt: rat
ġit: you (pl)
folc: people
ācwealdon: killed
min: my
ēam: uncle

#OldEnglish
#Covid19
#masks
#vaccine
#immune
#immunity
#immunology
#epidemiology
#virology
#parisitology
#pulmonology
#grief

My uncle died this morning of more conditions than I can count on both hands. I've been even less kind than usual to anti-science freaks.

Barry Sharp (@BarryESharp) tweeted,
"1. We tortured those residents
"2. There are many causes, including driving fear, cancelling surgeries and refusing to see patients face to face
"3. The experimental “vaccines” were utterly useless
"4. Hospitals were at times the quietest they have ever been
"5. K417n, says true

He was quoting AN ACTUAL SCIENTIST AND DOCTOR, Jonathan Laxton MD, FRCPC (@dr_jon_l). Dr Laxton was replying to @BarryESharp and @Doctor_Eric_B.

"1. LTC was not ideal, but not for the reasons you think
"2. Then why did the life expectancy drop in Canada
"3. the vaccine has saved millions of lives, including those in LTC
"4. Hospitals were overwhelmed during waves of infection
"5. False

This all went down at 2:20 pm EDT on May 16, 2023.

At this point, I chimed in at anti-science sh**-head with the following:

Freedom2B (@Freedom22BB)

"fylðe uncoðan āberender hwít wer raett"

and

Freedom2B (@Freedom22BB)

"ġit folc ācwealdon min ēam"

Forgive my absolute slaughter of Old English.

fylðe: filthy
uncoðan: plague
āberender: bearing
hwít: reference to my skinfolks' colour
wer: man/male
rætt: rat
ġit: you (pl)
folc: people
ācwealdon: killed
min: my
ēam: uncle

#OldEnglish
#Covid19
#masks
#vaccine
#immune
#immunity
#immunology
#epidemiology
#virology
#parisitology
#pulmonology
#grief