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pediculosis, nits, crabs, parasites, louse, bedbugs, body lice, pubic lice, head lice, lice eggs, lice infection, lice, typhus, relapsing fever, trench fever
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Louse infestation remains a major problem throughout the world. Head louse infestation among school children has reached epidemic proportions in many parts of the United States.

