How can a person catch scabies?

Poor hygiene: Scabies is caused by a tiny insect that burrows into your skin (mite). You get from close contact with infected people much like you get lice

Skin to skin contact: Scabies is a tiny black mite that lives on people, burrowing just under the up top layer of skin. It is most commonly caught through skin to skin contact with another person who has scabies. Can be acquired through sexual intercourse. It can also be acquired from sleeping in the same bed (or sleeping bag) with an infected person, or a bed an infected person recently slept in.