Pests -- United States
Residents of Washington, DC, have come under siege by a plague of microscopic oak leaf itch mites whose bite leaves a raft of painful and itchy sores on their victims.
"We wake up at night just scratching," said Cynthia Palmer of Arlington, Virginia, told The Washington Post. "It's like we have splotches of white paint all over us now that we're using the calamine [lotion]. The sores are red and swollen, so it's not pretty."
Scientists say the mites have come to feed on the billions of
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?8616259&promed&0
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