Scabies

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): The Public Health Department of eastern Nangarhar province has recorded 1,914 cases of scabies in 25 outbreaks during the past seven months .

Physicians and officials in western Ghor province have spoken about the increase in positive cases of scabies skin disease in the province and ask people to prevent the spread of this disease by observing personal and environmental hygiene.

Eighty students of a high school in the Alingar district of eastern Laghman province have been infected by Scabies disease, an official said on Thursday.