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A 39-year-old member asked:
Can virgins get scabies?
2 doctor answers • 6 doctors weighed in
Dr. Jason Blackanswered
Internal Medicine 27 years experience
Yes: Scabies is not a sexually transmitted disease. Anyone can get scabies from close contact with another infected individual.
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Dr. Kevin Windischanswered
Pediatrics 27 years experience
Absolutely: Babies get it all the time. Scabies is not necessarially sexually transmitted.
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A 32-year-old member asked:
How can you get scabies?
5 doctor answers • 8 doctors weighed in
Dr. Jennifer Haleyanswered
Dermatology 25 years experience
Close contact: It is a mite that lives on the body and can be transferred by close bodily contact. It can take up to 6 weeks to cause symptoms after the contact occurs.
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Dr. Barbara Stark Baxter commented
Allergy and Immunology 44 years experience
But even when 2 people sleep in the same bed and are intimate together, scabies may only infest one of them. It can seem odd who gets them sometimes! Cleaner people who shower often will get milder cases, in general. But even doctors can catch them, just from touching patients.
Jul 17, 2012
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