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Ep 86 Typhus: Another lousy episode

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Coln Causes Lice Infection?

In order to get infected, you can either rub it in a cut, or stick it up your nose or in your eye. The lice that are infected then become visibly red because they're full of blood and die within a week of inversion. Even if the louse dies, all of that, like fluid from that dead louse, is infectious as well. No scratching, like the lice bodies themselves into your body, can coln cause infection.

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