Article: HEAD LICE COMMON AMONG KIDS

An 8-year-old girl clambers off the bus with a note in her hand. The message from school says the second-grader won't be allowed back in school until she is rid of head lice. The girl's mother is horrified to discover her daughter has lice. She also wonders how long it will be before her child can return to school.

There are a lot of misconceptions about head lice, a common and usually harmless affliction that strikes many children ages 5 to 11. Health-care specialists urge adults to treat the problem realistically.

`Having head lice is not a reflection of poor parental care,' said Marian Rodgers, an infection-control nurse at Children's Medical Center in Dayton. `All children are at risk ...

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