The scabies mite can move quickly on the surface of the skin, about 1 inch in a minute. Anyone can get scabies.
Informed guesses place the number of cases in the millions.
Scabies is passed through close body contact. The contact can be within households or between sex partners. The symptom of scabies is itching that happens mainly at night. Another symptom is bumps that can appear on the skin between the fingers, inside the wrist, inside of the elbows, in the creases under the buttocks, in the groin, and finally, on the penis and scrotum. The bumps can become inflamed, crusty, or hard.