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mange (mānj), contagious skin disease of domestic and wild animals. The several types of mange, including follicular and sarcoptic mange, are caused by various minute parasitic mites that burrow into skin, hair follicles, or sweat glands. This leads to chronic skin inflammation and loss of hair. Sarcoptic mange, also called scab or scabies, produces intense irritation. Treatment of infected animals consists of repeated dipping (see dip dip, in agriculture, method of treating animals (chiefly livestock) infested with skin parasites such as mites, ticks, and warbles. The animal is dipped into or forced to swim through a tank filled with an insecticide solution.
..... Click the link for more information. ) or spraying with insecticides. Secondary bacterial infections are treated with antibiotics.


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It was almost a sufficient motive, not only to make me take off what would be called by pig- drovers the mange, but the skin itself.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave by Douglass, Frederick View in context
And they mightn't be feeling good--got a touch of cold, or mange, or are sour-balled.
Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context
The elder brother having thus managed me, his next business was to manage his mother, and he never left till he had brought her to acquiesce and be passive in the thing, even without acquainting the father, other than by post letters; so that she consented to our marrying privately, and leaving her to mange the father afterwards.
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