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This allowed them to identify traces of several pathogens, including Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for plague, and Borrelia recurrentis, which causes louse borne relapsing fever.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026

Initially, we can’t wait for Iacono’s louse to get eaten but we come to treasure his comic relief, particularly when Xavier wanders off to relieve himself next to a nest of velociraptors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2025

“We can see the louse DNA reflected in our own history.”

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 7, 2023

Odenkirk, in particular, is willing to go full louse.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

Then she crushed the flea or louse between her nails.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat

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

When lice were collected and tested, it was found that 5 per cent DDT powder caused no increase in their natural mortality rate.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

In the album’s liner notes, the band offers “special thanks from these louses to our spouses for letting us make all this racket around the houses.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2022

These include ensuring legal protections for endangered louses and nematodes, building parasitism into the K-12 curriculum, and getting the public not just mildly curious but “enthusiastic” about parasites.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2020

In layman's terms, it's a hotel for bugs, the smallest of the small—wood louses, millipedes, and anything else that could find its way in.

From Golf Digest ● Oct. 16, 2013

Maybe all her friends are a bunch of louses and she should cut her losses and not invite them to the wedding.

From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2013

"It shows his mind's troubled, for he usually louses at six."

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

No 404 notice, no “your internet connection is loused up” message — and especially, no Wordle.

From The Verge ● Feb. 16, 2022

In New Ulm, Minn., police forbade truckers to park livestock near churches when congregations complained that off-key moos loused up the hymns.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite his job problems, he is sticking with Carter "even though he loused up the economy."

From Time Magazine Archive

But she adds with pride: "Nobody ever got loused up in the Venice."

From Time Magazine Archive

He could hardly believe he had loused things up quite so badly.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

“I’m lousing up my moon picture,” Messuri said.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019

“A couple of generations after I’m dead and gone,” he likes to say, “the Ph.D.’s will start lousing through my work. Just imagine their surprise. ‘

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 27, 2015

Silver, who is called only Silver, perhaps because no one respects him enough to use his full name, has gone through life lousing things up.

From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2012

Does she think he regrets lousing up their marriage?

From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2010

You are unsatisfied with it, because—uh—your peculiar talent is lousing up your profession.

From The Animated Pinup by Lewis Parker