Personal Health: Parents, Relax. Don’t Keep Them From School. It’s Just Lice.

Monday, September 20, 2010 - 15:07 in Health & Medicine

Besides a sometimes itchy scalp from an allergic reaction to their saliva, scientists say, lice cause no physical distress and transmit no diseases.

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