{"id":3213,"date":"2020-05-20T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/?p=3213"},"modified":"2021-11-30T09:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T14:22:17","slug":"human-head-lice-and-their-ability-to-transmit-disease-bridging-the-scientific-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/human-head-lice-and-their-ability-to-transmit-disease-bridging-the-scientific-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Head Lice and Their Ability to Transmit Disease: Bridging the Scientific History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Deborah Z. Altschuler.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the early 1900s, the French physician, bacteriologist, and Nobel Prize winner Dr. Charles Nicolle (1866-1936, Figure 1) engaged in scientific research on louse-borne epidemic typhus, which was prevalent in Europe and North Africa.\u00a0Dr. Nicolle documented the ability of both the human body louse and the human head louse,\u00a0<em>Pediculus humanus<\/em>, to transmit typhus. Scientific researchers Anderson, Goldberger, Murray, and Snyder, among others (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/zinsser-project\/zinsser-lice-and-history\/\">https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/zinsser-project\/zinsser-lice-and-history\/<\/a>) identified the head louse as a vector of the disease. Yet recent journal articles appear inconclusive on the capability of head lice to transmit disease, overlooking the conclusions of the early scientific trailblazers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See full article at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/zinsser-project\/human-head-lice-and-their-ability-to-transmit-disease\/\">https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/zinsser-project\/human-head-lice-and-their-ability-to-transmit-disease\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deborah Z. Altschuler.\u00a0 In the early 1900s, the French physician, bacteriologist, and Nobel Prize winner Dr. Charles Nicolle (1866-1936, Figure 1) engaged in scientific research on louse-borne epidemic typhus, which was prevalent in Europe and North Africa.\u00a0Dr. Nicolle documented the ability of both the human body louse and the human head louse,\u00a0Pediculus humanus, to transmit &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-human-louse-and-disease","7":"category-news","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"NPA","author_link":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/author\/moore\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3214,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions\/3214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}