After an illness from the Victorian period started to spread among students, a school issued an urgent warning.
Some pupils at one of Cornwall’s Truro and Penwith College campuses have contracted the “highly contagious” scabies infestation, the college informed parents.
The further education institution claimed to have been “notified that some students in the college have reported skin rashes.
Which have been diagnosed by a clinician as being scabies” in a letter circulated on Monday, as viewed by CornwallLive.
The phone call and letter warning parents go on to say: “The rash may not show up for up to eight weeks, but scabies is contagious.
Please see your doctor and inform them that they have been into touch with someone who has scabies.
