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My housemate has scabies and has been using a cream for a week now. we washed our clothes separately + dried them together, cud i now get scabies?
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May be: It is not likely that drying your clothes together will transmit scabies, but other contact with your housemate may communicate this infestation.
Answered 2/18/2015
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