Epidemiological studies on human scabies in Cairo.

Nowadays, human scabies is more or less a public health problem in Egypt, particularly among school children. The results of this epidemiological studies among one hundred scabietic patients showed that (a) Scabies is widespread among children and youth particularly students (b) The sex and the site distribution are attributed to the risk factor of exposure to infestation (c) Scabies is a disease determined by Sociodemographic and Hygienic customs of the population with high familial incidence among the patients. The whole results were discussed on the light of the work done in Egypt and similar countries.