Most sexually transmitted diseases do not live long enough on a toilet seat to hurt you. For example, Healthline reports that HIV dies almost instantly once it dries in the air. This makes it ...

Human lice evolved alongside early humans, adapting to changes like reduced body hair and the development of clothing. While head lice primarily cause discomfort, body lice can transmit serious ...

The time may come when animals (including humans) will be able to poison the bugs that bite them. Last week the U.S. Department of Agriculture was hard at work on this project. Many modern ...

If you’ve noticed a bug on your clothes, in your hair, in your kid’s hair, or on your pet, there’s no need to panic, as it might not be a louse. Many insects have a lice-like appearance and are often ...

Fifty years ago, scientists discovered a nearly complete fossilized skull and hundreds of pieces of bone of a 3.2-million-year-old female specimen of the genus Australopithecus afarensis, often ...

The mystery: How did bubonic plague spread so rapidly? Could rat fleas have done it all? A new study points the finger at lice as possible... The plague — which in the mid-14th century was also known ...

A fluorescent image of a human body louse with Yersinia pestis infection — that's the cause of the plague — depicted in orange/red in the glands. The plague — which in the mid-14th century was also ...