Editing Scabies (section)

===Transmission===
Scabies is [[Contagious disease|contagious]] and can be contracted through prolonged physical contact with an infested person.<ref name=ssd3>{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of Skin and Skin Disorders |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofsk0000turk |url-access=registration | vauthors = Turkington C, Dover JS |isbn=978-0-8160-6403-8 |year=2006 |publisher=Facts on File inc |location=New York}}</ref>  This includes [[sexual intercourse]], although a majority of cases are acquired through other forms of skin-to-skin contact.  Less commonly, scabies infestation can happen through the sharing of clothes, towels, and bedding, but this is not a major mode of transmission; individual mites can survive for only two to three days, at most, away from human skin at room temperature.<ref name=webmd>{{cite web |url=http://www.emedicinehealth.com/scabies/page2_em.htm#Scabies_Causes |title=Scabies Causes |access-date=2010-10-09 |website=WebMD |date=October 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922170326/http://www.emedicinehealth.com/scabies/page2_em.htm#Scabies_Causes |archive-date=2010-09-22 }}</ref><ref name=chos>{{cite journal | vauthors = Chosidow O | title = Clinical practices. Scabies | journal = The New England Journal of Medicine | volume = 354 | issue = 16 | pages = 1718–1727 | date = April 2006 | pmid = 16625010 | doi = 10.1056/NEJMcp052784 }}</ref> As with lice, a [[latex condom]] is ineffective against scabies transmission during intercourse, because mites typically migrate from one individual to the next at sites other than the sex organs.<ref name=asha>{{cite web |url=http://www.ashastd.org/learn/learn_scabies_facts.cfm |title=Scabies – Fast Facts |access-date=2010-10-09 |publisher=American Social Health Association |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110422110637/http://ashastd.org/learn/learn_scabies_facts.cfm |archive-date=2011-04-22 }}</ref>

Healthcare workers are at risk of contracting scabies from patients, because they may be in extended contact with them.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = FitzGerald D, Grainger RJ, Reid A | title = Interventions for preventing the spread of infestation in close contacts of people with scabies | journal = The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | volume = 2014 | issue = 2 | pages = CD009943 | date = February 2014 | pmid = 24566946 | pmc = 10819104 | doi = 10.1002/14651858.CD009943.pub2 }}</ref>