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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Maybe if infectious disease had some of the same stigma we attach to lice, people would be more responsible.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/05/speaking-of-disease/

On a more serious note: the records of trying to treat lice during the Great War are just so disturbing. In addition to all the misery of the trenches, 95% of soldiers had lice. The report I'm reading collected over 10,000 lice from a single shirt.