Pubic lice are different from head lice. They are transmitted through physical (typically sexual, though not always) contact with another person who has pubic lice. Humans cannot get pubic lice from ...

A new study blames prehistoric gorillas in our past for the scourge of just about every college campus: crabs, also known as pubic lice. The little buggers only feast on humans and are usually ...

Yesterday, the Voice reported on something both terrifying and gross: drug resistant head lice. Turns out, some strains of these bugs have gotten so used to common treatments over the years that their ...

As Dr. Peter Leone, an infectious disease expert at the University of North Carolina, explains, getting crabs from a toilet seat really isn’t something people should be worried about. “It would be ...

Although it's popular for both men and women to get rid of all their pubic hair, pubic lice are still a problem, especially for Tinder users. Pubic lice, or crab lice/crabs, are parasitic insects ...

We hate to ruin Bloomberg News' squirm-inducing report of the day, but there's no solid evidence that the increasing popularity of the bikini wax is, in fact, actually leading to the elimination of ...

Pubic lice (Pthirus pubis), commonly known as “crabs,” are tiny, blood-feeding parasites that sometimes live and lay their eggs in body hair, especially pubic hair. Infestations of pubic lice, or ...

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No wait, that's not right....<BR><BR>Oh yeah, "video killed the radio star", but it seems that Brazilian waxes are killing public lice (a.k.a. crabs).<BR><BR>So it seems a dutch museum is having a ...

Since we reported on an outbreak of sea lice in Ocean City last week, The Baltimore Sun has received emails from readers that the critters seen this summer were actually baby crabs — not jellyfish or ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Sea lice have been a big concern for beachgoers in the Coastal Bend recently. Experts said strong currents are bringing them closer to shore, but in many cases, it's not even ...