Blood-sucking, parasitic human body lice may be more effective at transmitting the bacterium that causes bubonic plague than scientists originally thought. A laboratory study published May 21 in ...

Lice FAQs. How do I know if I have lice or not? If you have lice, your scalp will feel itchy, and you may develop a rash from scratching. When you brush your or your child's hair, look for the ...

Nagata says that if you have head lice, you'll eventually become itchy on your scalp and around your neck and ears. This itching can be an allergic reaction to lice bites or may be due to becoming ...

The new guidance says since head lice does not put children at risk for any serious health problems, they can stay in school while it's managed. Since lice is fairly common, experts don't want ...

Lice don't spread the way you probably think they do. Here's what to know. As school starts back up, so does the number of head lice cases. But humans have been dealing with the parasites for ...

Head lice are parasitic insects that burrow to the root of people’s hair and suck the blood from their scalps. While many parents have to treat their children, knowing how to find and remove ...

Between 6 and 12 million children ages 3 through 11 get head lice every year in the U.S., according to an estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s a lot of itching ...

Head lice, itchy parasites that live on the scalp, are typically spread through direct head-to-head contact, mostly among children. And getting close for group selfies — which often means ...

Actress Jenny Mollen said on Instagram that she learned she had head lice while on an airplane, sparking social media users to sound off. A lice expert weighs in.