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Scabies Outbreak Continues

Katie Woods/KFOX Morning News Producer

Posted: 7:47 pm MDT March 13,2009Updated: 8:53 pm MDT March 13,2009

EL PASO, Texas -- Six schools around El Paso confirmed new cases of the scabies outbreak.

Since Thursday, the Ysleta district said two more cases of scabies have hit Bel Air High School. Del Valle High School said one more person has the confirmed infection.

New to the list are Le Barron Park Elementary with two cases, Robert F. Kennedy pre-school confirmed one person had been infected, Valley View Middle School with two and Ysleta Elementary with one.

KFOX has also learned that Benito Martinez Elementary in the Socorro District also have one confirmed scabies infection.

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