Red Ribbons and Critters: The Truth Behind the Rumors at Leiden University Library

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2023-06-08 15:53:14

The velvet mites may have come along with leaking water that came in through the skylights.© Archive photo Hielco Kuipers

Wilfred Simons

Leiden

Visitors to the Leiden University Library have been surprised in recent days: red ribbons prevent passage in the atria under the skylights. The fearful rumor quickly circulated among Leiden students that they could contract a scabies infection in the University Library. That is not the case, says spokesman Erik Weber. “But it is true that outside critters had entered the building.”

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