The Dallas Morning News.Per the Mayo Clinic, scabies is a “contagious skin rash caused by a mite that burrows under the skin and lays eggs.”The former zookeeper, 61, is currently incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, serving a 21-year sentence for scheming to hire a hitman to murder nemesis Carole Baskin and violating federal wildlife laws.A representative for the Fort Worth prison confirmed an outbreak of scabies occurred in a housing unit. Visitation is temporarily suspended to the unit.