Woman "Eaten Alive" By Mites As Nursing Home Staff Let It Happen

In what a medical examiner described as "one of the most horrendous things" he's ever seen in his career, a woman was literally eaten alive by millions of parasitic mites while the staff at her nursing home looked on, according to a shocking investigative report by WXIA-TV in Atlanta.

Rebecca Zeni, 93, died in 2015 from "septicemia due to crusted scabies." Now, her family has filed a lawsuit, saying that the Shepherd Hills Nursing home in Georgia knew about Zeni's disease and failed to do anything to stop it.

Scabies, a painful but treatable condition, is caused when parasitic mites burrow into the skin, lay eggs, and essentially make your body their home. In most cases, the affliction is minor and easily treated with no lasting effects - in fact, it's the third most common skin disease in children and the elderly.