September, 1992

Report to the Department of Defense - Armed Forces Pest Management Board

Deborah Z. Altschuler

Abstract
"The Medical Entomology Committee concluded that, based on the literature reviewed, the head louse can potentially serve as a secondary vector of normal louse-borne diseases, particularly epidemic typhus and louse-borne fever."

Herbert T. Bolton, CAPT, MSC, USN, Executive Director Department of Defense Armed Forces Pest Management Board.

Entire Report and Supporting Documentation:

• Introduction.
• Pediculicide Performance, Profit, and the Public Health.
• Entire report and supporting documents are available. (Note: 200MB zip file).

  Zip file also contains:

  • The Louse: An Account of the Lice which Infest Man, their Medical Importance and Control - Patrick A. Buxton.
  • "Pharmacotherapy of Head Lice in Children" - Marcia Sanford-Driscoll, Pharm D.
  • "Borrelia: Strains, Vectors, Human and Animal Borreliosis" - Oscar Felsenfeld, M.Sc., M.D.
  • list incomplete... updates soon!