Pubic Lice I

能治愈性传播疾病-害虫群袭
Curable STDs - Infestations

阴虱 I

阴虱/The pubic louse
(lat. phthirus pubis)

1.它是什么?
一种昆虫虫害,通常在一个人的阴毛里生长,导致持续性的瘙痒

2. 它由什么所引起?
阴虱是一种以血为食的非常微小的昆虫。因为它的形状与海洋螃蟹相似,为了简便,人们通常也称它为“海蟹 (crab)”。阴虱只有一个月的寿命,但是每一只雌阴虱产卵50枚,她把卵附着在一根阴毛的基部,一周后就孵化了出来。如此,随着时间的过去,症状会趋于恶化。

3. 它如何传播?
阴虱在阴毛内生活和繁殖,而且通过密切的性接触从一个人传播给另一个人。确实,从虫害滋生的性伴那里是很容易沾染到这种小害虫的。有一些罕见的病例,虽然不可能从卫生间座便器上染上阴虱,衣服或床单却可能沾有它们,并由此传播给他人。总之,阴虱传染病是所有性传播疾病中传染性最强的疾病。

Pubic Lice I

1. What is it?
An insect infestation, usually in a person’s pubic hair, causing persistent itching.

2. What causes it?
Pubic lice or crab lice are very small insects that feed on blood. Often they are also simply called “crabs” for short, because their shape resembles that of sea crabs. They have a life span of about one month, but each female lays about 50 eggs (nits) which she attaches to the base of a hair strand, and which hatch in about a week. Thus, the problem tends to get worse over time.

3. How is it transmitted?
Pubic lice live and breed mostly in pubic hair and thus can be transmitted from one person to another by close sexual contact. Indeed, it is very easy to pick them up from an infested partner. In rare instances, the transfer may also occur through infested clothing or bed linen, although not from toilet seats. All in all, a pubic lice infestation is the most contagious of all STDs.

 

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