Lice are small parasitic insects that live exclusively on the human scalp and feed on blood Their bodies and claws are highly ...

Wash your body and change into clean clothes at least once a week to get rid of body lice. Wash clothes, sheets, and towels in hot water and dry on high heat to kill lice and remove eggs. Use topical ...

At 2:07 a.m., after three hours of combing through my hair, I found the culprit behind my itchy scalp. I zoomed in with my phone camera and, swallowing a gag, confirmed what I’d feared: At 25 years ...

ABSTRACT: We report a case of dual infection with Naganishia diffluens (formerly Cryptococcus diffluens) and Bartonella quintana in a homeless patient in Mexico City. The patient exhibited ...

I’m writing this with a helmet on, constantly looking around for any signs of them closing in. I’ve just been handed a chilling fact: one in five children gets head lice during the school year. And as ...

As millions of people journey to South Carolina beaches this summer, some will share the water with unwelcome companions. Dubbed sea poisoning, ocean itch and even seabather’s eruption, sea lice can ...

In his dissertation, Scherer reported four specific hydrocarbons present in significant amounts in every head louse sample he studied. [2] These four hydrocarbons represent approximately 50% of the ...

Cameron Webb and the Department of Medical Entomology, NSW Health Pathology and University of Sydney, have been engaged by a wide range of insect repellent and insecticide manufacturers to provide ...

Read about the volcano that some believe almost wiped humans off the planet Donald R. Prothero Our story begins on a very bad day about 74,000 years ago. The planet was starting to move out of one of ...

When I was in grade school, entire classes would periodically be herded into the gym, where a couple of nurses would use surgical-gloved hands and wooden tongue depressors to root around the heads of ...