Contagious: Pediculosis
| About contagion: Contagion and contagiousness refers to how easily the spread of Pediculosis is possible from one person to another. Other words for contagion include "infection", "infectiousness", "transmission" or "transmissability". Contagiousness has nothing to do with genetics or inheriting diseases from parents. For an overview of contagion, see Introduction to Contagion. |
Contagion summary:
Body lice
are spread directly through contact with a person who has body lice, or
indirectly through shared clothing, beds, bed linens, or towels. 1
Footnotes:
1. excerpt from Body Lice: DPD
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