News tagged with lice
Houndstongue is a controllable problem on range and wild lands
May 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Houndstongue--also known as beggar's lice, dog's tongue, sheep bur and woolmat--is not only a general nuisance to those of you who find its sticky seeds stuck in your shoelaces or the hair of your dogs and ...
Lice genomes: Pieces of a new puzzle
Mar 30, 2009 |
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Parents and school nurses take note. Lice are a familiar nuisance around the world and vectors of serious diseases, such as epidemic typhus, in developing regions. New research indicates that lice may actually ...
Wet combing more accurate than visual inspection for identifying active head lice infestation
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Combing through a child's wet hair may lead to more accurate identification of active head lice infestation than visual inspection, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journa ...
Pubic hair provides evolutionary home for gorilla lice
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Feb 11, 2009 |
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There are two species of lice that infest humans: pubic lice, Pthirus pubis, and human head and body lice, Pediculus humanus. A new article in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Biology suggests one explanation for ...
New finding about the bane of parents' lives -- head lice
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Jan 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Head lice are a challenge for parents of primary-school aged children all around the world, including Australia.
Ocean Fish Farming Harms Wild Fish, Study Says
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Dec 15, 2008 |
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Farming of fish in ocean cages is fundamentally harmful to wild fish, according to an essay in this week's Conservation Biology.
