Study could challenge the widespread view that fleas and rats are the only contributors to plague outbreaks. According to the ...

Blood-sucking, parasitic human body lice may be more effective at transmitting the bacterium that causes bubonic plague than ...

These blood-sucking insects are capable of transmitting the bacteria that caused the Black Death, according to a laboratory ...

A new laboratory study suggests that human body lice are more efficient at transmitting Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that ...

However a new study suggests that human body lice are more efficient at transmitting Yersinia pestis – the bacteria that ...

The findings challenge widespread views of how the Black Death spread. The post Study reveals lice helped spread Black Death ...

There are different types of lice. The type you have depends on the part of your body that’s affected: Head lice affect the scalp. Pubic lice (also called “crabs”) affect your genital area.

Scientists have long debated whether human body lice might have helped drive the rapid spread of the bacteria responsible for ...

A new laboratory study suggests that human body lice are more efficient at transmitting Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, than previously thought, supporting the possibility that they ...

However, it’s emergence in the Denver, Colorado, area is a concern. It may be a sign that human body lice and the conditions that foster human body lice such as non-hygienic conditions and ...

Body lice -- which feed on human blood -- can also carry Y. pestis, but are widely considered to be too inefficient at spreading it to contribute substantially to outbreaks.