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6. Complications

Some people may experience an allergic reaction to body lice bites. Additionally, body lice can transmit bacterial diseases through the feces they excrete onto the skin during the bite. One possible disease is relapsing fever. Infected feces carries also trench fever and epidemic typhus. Body lice carry bacteria that cause typhoid fever, too, along with those that commonly lead to pneumonia and lower respiratory tract infections.

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