Don't touch me or I'll get your scabies, you pig!

A proportion of the inmates of both prisons are suffering from scabies, tuberculosis and other illnesses.

Essential drugs for the treatment of common diseases such as diarrhoea, malaria, respiratory infections, scabies and ailments caused by malnutrition are provided through existing health centres.

The most frequent diseases in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2001 were influenza, enterocolitis, varicellae, scabies and angina streptococci, which made up 90 per cent of the total number of registered infectious diseases.

Reports by NGOs and other organizations had raised serious concerns about the detention of illegal immigrants, including the lack of beds and mattresses limited hot water infestations of scabies and restricted contact with the outside world.