What does it smell like there?
Written by: World Vision
Written by: Mike Bailey, World Vision Advocacy Manager
Written by: Mike Bailey, World Vision Advocacy Manager
Akhtar Soomro / Reuters
Another blogger about the flood in Pakistan, writing about the horrific conditions there due to disease, lack of water, food and medical care...and if you didn't know about "scabies," read on so you may know what these people are going through:
"Claire, one of World Vision's health specialists explains what scabies is. "Little mites burrow around under your skin. They defecate there causing inflammation and intense itching. You scratch and get them under your fingernails and so they spread. They also get into the seams of your clothes and only boiling or hot ironing will kill them. If you brush your infected arm against someone else the mites pass to the other person". In the overcrowded conditions of the displaced people in Sukkar and Khaipur and where the floods have struck all over Pakistan, scabies is spreading like wildfire. The treatment is a pesticide solution you paint on your skin. It only works if you break the chain of infection by boiling all the clothes and bedding of the whole family and of everyone else you are rubbing against every day."
Read the entire blog at http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/53806/2010/07/23-144142-1.htm
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