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`The Modern
Plague

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24 girls, 12 were infested.
he tip-off often is when a child
I thought, 'How did I get so lucky?
begins to scratch his or her
My daughter doesn't have lice.' So
head.
today I found some in her hair."
Just as often, parents are caught
A doctor at the same clinic, an
unaware when the dreaded note
immigrant
from the United States,
comes from school: "We checked stu-
thinks the incidence of head lice is
dents today, and your child
higher in Israel due to more
was found to have head
crowded living conditions,
lice."
making it just that much easi-
One of the Ten Plagues
er to "pass" the lice around.
God brought upon the
Indeed, according to Israeli
Egyptians, lice, interestingly
demographers, Israel rapidly
enough, were the only
is headed toward becoming
plague that affected the
one of the most densely pop-
children of Israel, as well.
ulated countries on earth.
Today, lice still plague the
Diane S chaefer
But even to the non-scholarly,
Appl eTree
children of Israel, within the
Staff
Writer
it appears that Israelis are liv-
modern state.
ing on top of each other fig-
According to a recent arti-
uratively,
as well as literally. It seems
cle in the Jerusalem Post, a survey
that children are almost never alone.
conducted by a parasitologist at the
They
are crowded together in day-
Hebrew University-Haclassah School
care centers; they start preschool
of Medicine in Jerusalem has
often as early as 2; and they are con-
revealed that 15 percent of all Israeli
stantly playing with friends in the
children from pre-kindergarten through
building or down the block. All this
eighth grade are infested by head
means that head lice are incredibly
lice, twice the infestation rate of chil-
difficult to avoid.
dren in the United States.
For years, school nurses were
Head lice are a fact of life here.
required
regularly to check students
Lice combs are given prominent dis-
for head lice. Today, the Ministry of
play in the neighborhood grocery
Health ruled that nurses are no longer
store. One of the most popular chil-
required to check students. In addi-
dren's cream rinses includes rosemary
tion,
according to the ministry, chil-
oil, said to be a deterrent to head
dren infested with head lice can
lice.
attend school as usual. The only solu-
The discovery of head lice, general-
tion is for parents to wash and check
ly does not cast an aspersion on the
their children's hair daily.
child's hygiene; rather, it is looked
As a co-worker advised, after
upon as inevitable. The nurse at one
first head lice were discov-
Yehuda's
of the neighborhood health-fund clin-
ered when he was 10 months old
ics related one morning: "I checked
and barely even had hair: Don't use
all the girls in my daughter's kinder-
special chemical preparations, no
garten for head lice yesterday. Out of
matter how safe, as they cease to be
Diane Schaefer lives outside
effective after one or two times. Just
Jerusalem with her husband and
comb, comb, comb. Ci

three children.

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