Body lice can live anywhere there is hair on the body. Body lice are much hardier than other types of lice and can live up to 10 days without a human host. On a human host they can survive for up to three weeks, laying up to 88 eggs during their lifetime on their host.
Photo: Erin Lubin, Special To The Chronicle. Margaret Phelan Taylor, 85-years-old, holds a photo of herself from when she served as a Woman Airforce Service Pilot, or WASP, during WWII, as she sits in her Palo Alto home Friday afternoon, July 17, 2009. Phelan Taylor will be receiving a congressional gold medal for her work during world war II as a pilot.
Susannah Cahalan: 'What I remember most vividly are the fear and anger'. The New Yorker was 24 when she fell seriously ill with a mystery condition. She was lucky: a neurologist recognised the symptoms and she recovered. Here she tells how she pieced together her terrifying ordeal to write a remarkable memoir. Susannah Cahalan, photographed near her home in Union City, New Jersey. In 2009, Susannah Cahalan was 24 years old and living the kind of New York life that young women who have watched too much Sex and the City dream about. She had the go-getting job as a news reporter on the city's tabloid New York Post.