What are sea lice? Experts explain how to treat itchy, stinging rashes from the tiny sea creatures filling South Carolina ...

Lice are tiny parasites that live on human beings and feed on blood. They seldom cause serious medical problems, but they are both annoying and contagious. There are three types of lice that can ...

Sea lice can be found along the entire North Carolina coast, The N&O previously reported. Each summer, thimble jellyfish make ...

The Lice Timeline: When Did Humans First Wear Clothes? For most of human history, early humans did without clothing, relying on their bare skin and body hair for survival. But then something changed.

Lice, scabies, rashes plague Palestinian children as skin disease runs rampant in Gaza’s tent camps Displaced child Sham al-Hessi, center, who suffers from skin disease, is covered with skin cream as ...

Doctors are wrestling with more than 103,000 cases of lice and scabies and 65,000 cases of skin rashes, according to the World Health Organization. In Gaza’s population of some 2.3 million, more ...

Doctors are wrestling with more than 103,000 cases of lice and scabies and 65,000 cases of skin rashes, according to the World Health Organization.

Skin diseases are running rampant in Gaza, health officials say, from appalling conditions in overcrowded tent camps housing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians driven from their homes.