Resources:

"A Parent's Guide to Head Lice 2008" brochure and "Guidelines for the Control and Prevention of Head Lice in Child Care Facilities" published by the California Department of Public Health.

Body lice can transmit infectious diseases to humans (epidemic typhus, louseborne relapsing fever, trench fever). Head lice also create serious public health problems by infesting humans (pediculosis).

Photo credit California Department of Public Health