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Can i get crabs from wearing someones pants?
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Yes: You can catch "crabs" or pediculosis pubis from close contact with anything harboring the crabs. Clothing, sheets, couch, someone else's crotch, etc. http://www.emedicinehealth.com/crabs/article_em.htm.
Answered 2/2/2018
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Yes: Head lice (pediculosis humanus capitis), body lice (pediculosis humanus corporis) and pubic lice or crabs (phthirus pubis) can all be spread by vector transmission. Wearing someone else’s close that are contaminated can give you lice.
Answered 5/24/2013
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