If there was one type of app we never thought we’d see in the app store, it’s one that deals with lice, and lice only.Fairy Tales Hair Care claims to have released the Facts of Lice application in order to support “the fight against lice”.Although they tend to make it sound as if the these win... |
10 August 2011
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Strangely, few people thought that the mighty dinosaurs may have had such a common problem as lice. Yet experts seem to believe that this was precisely the case, especially as far as the feathered of the giant lizards went. Dinosaurs are now believed to have been affected by the same type of parasites as young childr... |
6 April 2011
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A group of experts from the Henri Mondor Hospital and the Avicenne Hospital (HP), working together with colleagues from Inserm, have recently proven the effectiveness of a new molecule in combating lice. While mostly eradicated in civilized countries, where people care a lot about their personal hygiene, the problem ... |
12 March 2010
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Lice need their "forest" in order to survive. However, just like the Brazilian Amazon forests, another one seem to be lost forever, thanks to the influence of modern civilization... A British research published in the June 2006 issue of the Sexually Transmitted Infections journal revealed that crab rates in Leeds are... |
12 May 2008
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They may be nasty, but these parasites are intimately bound to humans and may tell a lot of our past. They can only live on humans and die rapidly out of their human hosts, unable to parasitize any other animal. Head lice collected from 1,000-year-old Peruvian mummies clearly point that they accompanied humans during... |
7 February 2008
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A DNA analysis of pubic lice, aka "crabs" revealed that the parasites were transferred from gorillas to early humans about 3.3 million years ago. This points to a close contact between our ancestors and gorillas, but it is far more likely that early humans got the lice from sleeping in abandoned gorilla nests or eati... |
8 March 2007
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