Are Brazilian Waxes Making Crab Lice an Endangered Species?

9:55 am

Fri January 18, 2013

Are Brazilian Waxes Making Crab Lice an Endangered Species?

By Curtis Bisbee

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A recently discovered trend suggests an alternative way of stemming one of the globe’s most contagious sexually transmitted infections. Pubic lice are usually treated with topical insecticides, while they aren’t known to spread disease, itchy skin reactions and subsequent infections make the lice a hazardous pest.

Source: Bloomberg
| Via: James Grover

Pubic lice, the crab-shaped insects that have dwelled in human groins since the beginning of history, are disappearing. Doctors say bikini waxing may be the reason. Waning infestations of the bloodsuckers have been linked by doctors to pubic depilation, especially a technique popularized in the 1990s by a Manhattan salon run by seven Brazilian sisters.

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Are Brazilian Waxes Making Crab Lice an Endangered Species?

9:55 am

Fri January 18, 2013