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Bugs can be nasty critters, IMO doctors often misdiagnose skin complaints caused by bugs. HRH once had an itch which the doctor incorrectly diagnosed as an allergy, turned out it was caused by roving european fowl mites, common on the feral birds that europeans bought with them to Australia. If you have any bird nests in your roof you will have fowl mites, when the fledglings leave the nest the mites go wandering looking for a meal.
The interesting thing is that we wouldn't have known had I not retrieved a book called "The life that lives on man" after a workmate tossed it in the bin, in the book was the exact description of tye problem HRH was having. We spotted what looked like a mould patch on our cornice, on closer inspection it was a centimetre diameter swarm of critters almost too small to see naked eye.
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