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body lice

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body lice
Vox populi Pediculosis humanis corporis. See Louse.


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The head louse does not carry any disease which makes it virtually harmless, though irritating, while other lice such as body lice can carry certain types of diseases.
There are two species of lice that infest humans: pubic lice, Pthirus pubis, and human head and body lice, Pediculus humanus.
Perhaps they get confused with body lice, which are associated with disease," Jones says.
 
 
 
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