Head lice are as likely to infest a clean head as an unwashed one.

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If they know the child is going to see a head lice inspection nurse they will start daily detection combing the child's hair, hopefully.

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The ICRC will assess the conditions and decide whether shaving the detainees' heads and beards was warranted to combat head lice, as the Pentagon said.

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For instance, one emerging service company in our own region that recently came to my attention performs the highly specialized service of treating human head lice.

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It's the US Congress, which is less popular than cockroaches, used car salesmen and head lice among other things, according to a poll by Public Policy Polling.

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She will lay his fearful head on her lap and she will pick out the lice from his pelt and perhaps she will put the lice into her mouth and eat them, as he will bid her, as she would do in a savage marriage ceremony.

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