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Article: Heading off lice // Prevention pays off, especially in schools // Prevention can pay off in avoiding head lice
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 16, 1991
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Seven years ago, when her son David was in second grade and she
headed the nurse practitioner program at the University of Virginia,
Ellen Rudy Clore got a worried phone call from the principal of his
school.
Kids there by the dozen were coming down with head lice, the
principal told her. Would she help the school find out why?
Clore - now an assistant professor of nursing at the University
of Florida in Orlando - soon discovered that the epidemic had started
when many of the youngsters had had their class pictures taken.
The teacher in charge at the sittings, it turned out, had wanted
them to look their best and so had first combed each child's hair
with the same comb.
Although ...