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Can you please help me identify these bugs I found latched onto my body? - Pthirus pubis
Copyright © 2019 DesperateForHelp

Can you please help me identify these bugs I found latched onto my body? - Pthirus pubis
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
December 27, 2019
Size: 1mm
I had to literally scratch them off my skin and squeeze them between my fingers to get them off my skin. The images are of one bug, taken both with and without flash. The hatch marks are in millimeters.

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Can you please help me identify these bugs I found latched onto my body? - Pthirus pubis Can you please help me identify these bugs I found latched onto my body? - Pthirus pubis Can you please help me identify these bugs I found latched onto my body? - Pthirus pubis Can you please help me identify these bugs I found latched onto my body? - Pthirus pubis
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Contributed by DesperateForHelp on 27 December, 2019 - 5:10pm
Last updated 27 December, 2019 - 7:19pm

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Moved from ID Request.
… Blaine Mathison, 27 December, 2019 - 7:19pm login or register to post comments

Appears to be a louse


Information here.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 27 December, 2019 - 6:01pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you so so much!
Thanks for the quick reply. I can't believe three walk-in doctors and four pharmacists couldn't identify this. Two were quite certain they were scabies but another said they were too big.
… DesperateForHelp, 27 December, 2019 - 7:55pm login or register to post comments

 
Happy to help
:)
… Ken Wolgemuth, 27 December, 2019 - 11:12pm login or register to post comments

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