The bacterial infection, known as Bartonella quintana, or trench fever as it was called during World War I, lives in the feces of body lice and can cause skin lesions, fever and bone pain.

Syracuse, N.Y. -- “Super lice,” as too many parents likely know, have become the most common headache in the battle to keep scalps and hair critter-free. But hope exists for removing the ...

“The victim is listed as covered in feces with numerous severe skin ulcers from pressure,” the report states. “Lice was present in his hair and on his body. “The victim is ‘locked into ...