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Cameron Webb, Clinical Associate Professor and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney

Head lice are getting harder to kill. Here’s how to break the nit cycle

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Wrangling head lice, and the children they infest, must be up there with the most challenging duties a parent or carer has to face.

And the job is getting harder. Commonly used chemical products aren’t working as well as they once did, meaning head lice are harder to kill.

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