Papers from the CDC highlights public health concerns over the difficulty of identifying and treating B. quintana among ...

If body lice go untreated, the bites can cover a large area and cause skin thickening or discoloration (darkening). Read Next ...

They added that key features of body lice that likely contribute to their ability to spread the disease include the fact that they ingest a large volume of blood in a single feeding, increasing ...

Its authors concluded that measures such as large-scale decontamination are often ... Scabies, bedbug, and body lice infestations should be treated with decontamination measures.

But a team from the universities of Oslo and Ferrara now says the first, the Black Death, can be "largely ascribed to human fleas and body lice". The study, in the Proceedings of the National ...

A file photo of a transplant surgery in Quebec. Bartonella quintana, an infection caused by body lice, has been found in seven organ transplant recipients in Alberta since 2022. (Radio-Canada ...