# Brazillians killing crab lice - another pube thread :)

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**Created:** [January 14, 2013, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brazillians-killing-crab-lice-another-pube-thread/647185 "2013-01-14T17:14:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brazillians-killing-crab-lice-another-pube-thread/647185/1 "2013-01-14T17:14:01Z")

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Turns out that Australia hasn’t seen a case of crabs since 2008 - and the culprit is increased pubic hair shaving.

[News story from the UK’s best paper](http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4742990/brazilian-bikini-waxes-killing-off-crabs.html)

[Peer reviewed scientific paper discussing the issue - Did the “Brazilian” kill the pubic louse?](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2564756/)