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The initial diagnosis of scabies may have been incorrect, according to an e-mail sent from University Health Services (UHS) doctors to residents Wednesday afternoon. While the cause of the skin ailments of at least five of the Pennypacker residents remains unknown, bed bugs and mosquitoes have been ruled out...
The original source, scabies or otherwise, has now been eradicated from the freshman dormitory, said the e-mail, which was signed by UHS Chief of Medicine Soheyla D. Gharib and staff physician Gregory Johnson.
Because the disease is spread through direct skin-to-skin contact or through clothes and bedding, UHS instructed everyone to launder their clothing, bedding, and shoes. Anything that was not washed had to remain tied in a plastic bag for 14 days, and students had to apply Permethrin insecticide cream...
After the dorm was preventively treated, no new cases occurred in Pennypacker. The UHS memo explained that the best diagnosis that could be given at the time was that the students had contracted scabies, and following standard procedure, they treated the entire dormitory.
UHS made a “presumptive” but not “definitive” diagnosis, the e-mail said. Neither Gharib or Johnson returned calls for comment.