If you’ve noticed a bug on your clothes, in your hair, in your kid’s hair, or on your pet, there’s no need to panic, as it might not be a louse. Many insects have a lice-like appearance and are often ...

The back-to-school season, as exciting and relieving as it can be for parents, also means the start of the dreaded lice infestations. It's estimated that around 12 million cases of head lice ...

Head lice is a common problem that affects millions of school-age children and their families each year. The good news is that head lice are treatable with many prescription and non-prescription ...

White vinegar can be used for almost everything around our homes, but could it help to kill lice? Pest control pros have explained to us why vinegar is not the best solution for killing lice, and what ...

Head lice are small parasites that live on human scalps, feeding on blood. While they don’t cause serious health problems, head lice are a common and frustrating problem, especially among school-aged ...

In a recent study published in the journal PLOS Biology, researchers adapt a strain of human body lice to a membrane feeder to study its infection dynamics with Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of ...

The anatomy and physiology of head lice makethem extremely adaptable to their human hosts butalso difficult to eradicate. Their coloring and smallsize make them difficult to see, and the larvae, ...

The results of the sequencing and analysis of the human body louse genome, which were published on June 21 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), offer new insights into the ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Like an unwelcome houseguest or itinerant squatter, the human body louse shows up when times are bad and always makes them worse. Now a multi-institutional team reports that it has ...