Pubic lice, the crab-shaped insects that have dwelled in human groins since the beginning of history, are disappearing. Doctors say bikini waxing may be the reason. Waning infestations of the ...

A gruesome video has revealed a crab lice infestation - in a six-year-old boy's eyelashes. The clip shows the lice, also known as Phthirus pubis, crawling through the hairs just above the child's ...

Pubic lice or crab lice are tiny insects that infest a person's pubic hair, although they also can be found on facial hair, armpit hair and eyelashes. The insects look like crabs, and a person with ...

Pubic lice have plagued mankind for thousands of years, but the itchy pests are now facing a enemy that threatens to wipe them out: bikini waxing. Also known as crab lice, the tiny insects lay their ...

Some might call them vain, but fans of pubic hair removal have a new argument for their painful habit: stopping the spread of crabs. Doctors in the U.S. and Australia have seen a dramatic decline in ...

No wait, that's not right....<BR><BR>Oh yeah, "video killed the radio star", but it seems that Brazilian waxes are killing public lice (a.k.a. crabs).<BR><BR>So it seems a dutch museum is having a ...

We hate to ruin Bloomberg News' squirm-inducing report of the day, but there's no solid evidence that the increasing popularity of the bikini wax is, in fact, actually leading to the elimination of ...

Over the past decade, doctors have noticed a dramatic decrease in reported cases of crab lice, also known as pubic lice (Phthirus pubis). The reason, they say, is actually quite simple: the rise in ...

Yesterday, the Voice reported on something both terrifying and gross: drug resistant head lice. Turns out, some strains of these bugs have gotten so used to common treatments over the years that their ...

A story from Jason Gale & Shannon Pettypiece at Bloomberg has been making the rounds this week, with the itch-inducing headline "Brazilian Bikini Waxes Make Crab Lice Endangered Species." They say: ...

According to doctors, public lice or crabs or whatever the hell that makes people scratch down there is disappearing because everybody is getting Brazilian waxes. We’re killing them off by destroying ...

We hate to ruin Bloomberg News' squirm-inducing report of the day, but there's no solid evidence that the increasing popularity of the bikini wax is, in fact, actually leading to the elimination of ...