Woman infested with bird mites

They look like tiny black specks and their bites feel like pinpricks.

And worst of all for Nina Bradica, the bird mites that have infested her chest and pelvis feel like they are everywhere, she said.

Bradica, 47, was in quarantine Friday at Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow because of the bird mites - common, parasitic arachnids spread by wild birds.