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Hair: Keeping Lice at Bay
By Titilayo Kupoliyi Now and then, her right hand swings to her head, scratching away at her hair vigorously. Her target is louse (plural lice), the common name for any member of the clade Phthiraptera, which contains nearly 5,000 species of wingless parasitic insects. Lice easily find the hair of children habitable as most of…