(1) Body lice and bacteria and fleas were dying by the billions.

(2) The same Southern private wrote graphically of another problem he and his comrades had to contend with, that of body lice.

(3) If there is a serious increase in body louse infestation, quick action is required by properly trained personnel.

(4) The body louse, usually found on inner clothing seams, is the only proven vector of louse-borne (epidemic) typhus and epidemic relapsing fever.

(5) In 2003, Mark Stoneking, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany, estimated from DNA differences that the body louse evolved from the head louse about 107,000 years ago.

(6) Epidemic typhus is passed from human to human by the body louse.