While uncommon, there have been reports of acute anemia due to large blood losses from lice. When lice drink blood, their body masses increase rapidly. According to a 2022 study , female lice grew ...

TAMPA — School was still a month away but Taylor Huff, 32, got nervous when she discovered she and her teenage daughter had head lice. Turns out, she might not have needed to be so concerned.

Doctors Discover Large Number Of Lice Eggs Nesting On 3-Year-Old Chinese Boy's Eyelashes The 3-year-old boy had been complaining of intense itching and abnormal secretions around his eyes, as well ...

The common wisdom is that rat fleas were the big spreaders. But now a new paper is making a second parasite look like it may have helped play a role in plague transmission — the lowly human body ...

Researchers from the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Hamilton, Mont., revisited whether body lice (Pediculus humanus humanus) can spread the plague.The team simulated ...

Lice commonly dwell on people’s heads, clamping onto hair shafts, piercing scalps and drinking blood. Unable to survive away from human bodies, the parasites jump from one person to the next.