{"id":17717,"date":"2014-10-04T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=17717"},"modified":"2014-10-03T14:54:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T18:54:27","slug":"more-on-shudder-head-lice-and-bed-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2014\/10\/04\/more-on-shudder-head-lice-and-bed-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"More on (shudder!) head lice and bed bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Adult female of the bed bug, Cimex lectularius, length 5 mm. Image by Gilles San Martin<\/a>, Creative Commons, some rights reserved<\/p><\/div>\n

Thankfully, I have not experienced the misery of bedbugs first-hand. But families I know have endured cycles of head lice. Which forces some degree of crisis response.<\/p>\n

If you’re lucky those events are a hassle. For some the hassle goes into nightmare territory. And lice are not choosy, they’ll go for everyone.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Garner just explained getting “the dreaded call”<\/a> from school regarding head lice to Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight Show. She goes on to recount how she met George Clooney for the first time while still smelling of her own head lice treatment.<\/p>\n