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Scabies mite magnified.

A man with black hair, a black moustache, wearing a tan shirt with his gaze to the left, sitting in a lounge room.

"It can happen to you. It can happen to anyone."
A skin condition, believed to be scabies

Dozens of white mites under a microscope.

"In addition to that unfortunately diagnosis by microscope only achieves around 50 per cent accuracy."

Dr Joshua Francis from the Menzies School of Health Research speaks to a crowd of health workers in Timor Leste.

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