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Can you develop a fever with scabies?
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Never Heard of That: Scabies is a very uncomfortable skin infection with no other complications.Except secondary skin infection from scratching. This rarely may cause fever, but I have never seen this complication-the fever- in 35 years of practice.
Answered 3/26/2013
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Yes: Yes if the skin gets infected.
Answered 9/28/2016
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