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A fluorescent image of a human body louse with Yersinia pestis infection — that's the cause of the plague — depicted in orange/red in the glands.
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Lice have irked humans for many centuries. In this 1497 woodcut printed in Strasburg, Germany, a man is de-loused. Science & Society Picture Library via Getty Images hide caption

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Lice DNA is a revealing textbook of human history

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