It’s important to remove adult lice and eggs that haven’t hatched before they can produce an even bigger infestation. It’s possible to prevent lice eggs from hatching if you treat or remove them at ...

Lice can be treated using specialized combs, medicated shampoos, or home remedies like oils. But there’s no single treatment that can get rid of lice right away. Lice are tiny parasites that live in ...

European typhus fever, also called “spotted fever” and “ship fever,” is not to be confused with typhoid fever. For generations it was the scourge of armies, and it still flourishes in Poland, Russia ...

Figure 1. Fossilized nits of chewing lice, tightly affixed to feathers of an enantiornithine bird, entombed in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar. (a) Isolated barbs and regularly arranged ...

The start of a new school year is the perfect time to discuss lice and ring worm. These parasites may gross you out—I admit that just writing about them makes me itch—but both are very common, ...

Cameron Webb and the Department of Medical Entomology, NSW Health Pathology, have been engaged by a wide range of insect repellent and insecticide manufacturers to provide testing of products and ...

NBC Select independently determines what we cover and recommend. When you click on or buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more. Lice checks were a dreaded part of my childhood — I ...