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This allowed them to identify traces of several pathogens, including Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for plague, and Borrelia recurrentis, which causes louse borne relapsing fever.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026

Initially, we can’t wait for Iacono’s louse to get eaten but we come to treasure his comic relief, particularly when Xavier wanders off to relieve himself next to a nest of velociraptors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2025

Along our evolutionary journey from monkey-like primates to bipedal apes to big-brained humans, we have had the company of an extraordinarily loyal companion: Pediculus humanus, otherwise known as the human louse.

From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2023

“We can see the louse DNA reflected in our own history.”

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 7, 2023

Sam Westing, the louse, has cheated him again.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

While starving and battling lice, the young women distracted themselves by fantasizing about food.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

This suggests that immersion in hot water may interfere with lice activity or where they lay their eggs.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 3, 2026

Hundreds of parasites have the ability to infect humans, including lice, mites and ticks.

From Salon ● May 18, 2025

An initial assessment revealed that the whale was underweight and had an abnormal amount of whale lice, suggesting she was suffering from some illness or lack of adequate nutrition, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025

Ninety-five percent of British soldiers coming off the line were infested with lice.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

In the album’s liner notes, the band offers “special thanks from these louses to our spouses for letting us make all this racket around the houses.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2022

These include ensuring legal protections for endangered louses and nematodes, building parasitism into the K-12 curriculum, and getting the public not just mildly curious but “enthusiastic” about parasites.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2020

In layman's terms, it's a hotel for bugs, the smallest of the small—wood louses, millipedes, and anything else that could find its way in.

From Golf Digest ● Oct. 16, 2013

Maybe all her friends are a bunch of louses and she should cut her losses and not invite them to the wedding.

From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2013

The dozen white louses do become an old coat well; it agrees well, passant; it is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover

No 404 notice, no “your internet connection is loused up” message — and especially, no Wordle.

From The Verge ● Feb. 16, 2022

National ads . . . are all loused up with overexcited, overeager, overhappy faces.

From Time Magazine Archive

But she adds with pride: "Nobody ever got loused up in the Venice."

From Time Magazine Archive

In New Ulm, Minn., police forbade truckers to park livestock near churches when congregations complained that off-key moos loused up the hymns.

From Time Magazine Archive

It seemed she had two or three daughters, and that year they were all going to be debutantes, only she had loused up their debutante party by signing herself into the asylum.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

“I’m lousing up my moon picture,” Messuri said.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019

“A couple of generations after I’m dead and gone,” he likes to say, “the Ph.D.’s will start lousing through my work. Just imagine their surprise. ‘

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 27, 2015

Silver, who is called only Silver, perhaps because no one respects him enough to use his full name, has gone through life lousing things up.

From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2012

Does she think he regrets lousing up their marriage?

From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2010

My main trouble was in lousing you up just a little bit, not enough to make you suspect anything.

From Sentiment, Inc. by Poul William Anderson