Nit picking: wet hair best for discovering lice, study finds

Monday, March 16, 2009 - 15:07 in Biology & Nature

Combing through a child's wet hair seems to be a more accurate way of finding active head lice compared with visual checks, say researchers who looked at the diagnostic accuracy of the two techniques in German schoolchildren.

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