Source: Source: Facebook Indian soldiers arriving in France to fight in World War 1, 1914. British occupied ... One soldier wrote home: Our people have many lice in their clothes, and they bite ...

Body lice lay eggs on clothing, feed on human blood, and can transmit disease to humans. People without housing and living in crowded conditions have a higher risk of body lice than others.

But recent research points the finger at an additional culprit: body lice. A study in the journal PLOS Biology suggests that body lice are capable of transmitting Yersinia pestis, the bacterium ...

In a recent study published in the journal PLOS Biology, researchers adapt a strain of human body lice to a membrane feeder to study its infection dynamics with Yersinia pestis, the causative ...

Hinnebusch and his colleagues wondered whether human body lice might have provided the bacteria with an additional transmission route. They can transmit other infections (like relapsing fever ...