lice
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We get a clear-eyed look at disgust, a nearly universal human response to the likes of maggots, cockroaches, ticks, leeches, slugs and lice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Others do not, viewing the bots as sidewalk lice that create hazards and take jobs from humans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026
The latter is transmitted by lice and produces alternating periods of fever and recovery.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2025
Hundreds of parasites have the ability to infect humans, including lice, mites and ticks.
From Salon ● May 18, 2025
The list of diseases and their insect carriers, or vectors, includes typhus and body lice, plague and rat fleas, African sleeping sickness and tsetse flies, various fevers and ticks, and innumerable others.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
