lice

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While starving and battling lice, the young women distracted themselves by fantasizing about food.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Monkeys that soaked in the warm water had different patterns of lice on their bodies and differences in certain gut bacteria.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

Hundreds of parasites have the ability to infect humans, including lice, mites and ticks.

From Salon • May 18, 2025

"It's the season for skin infections and we don't have creams or ointments for bacterial infections, no medicines to treat scabies and head lice."

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2025

Officers and men alike shared their trenches with rats and frogs, with slugs and horned beetles that burrowed into the trench walls, with lice that infested every man’s clothing.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman