Do you think that it was difficult to keep the lice away from your hair and your children? Now, it could become even more complicated because a new generation of these bugs, which seems to be immune to the products to combat them, is spreading in the United States, and it would have reached 25 states.
They are stronger
The new "super lice", as well as regular lice are parasitic insects that can live on the scalp, eyebrows and eyelashes of humans feeding on blood. But it is said to be "super" because it would be harder to kill, Medical Daily reported.
"We are the first group to collect samples of lice from a large number of populations across the US. What we found was that 104 of the 109 types of lice that we analyzed had high levels of genetic mutations, which have been linked to a (higher) resistance to pyrethroids, "he said researcher Kyon Yoon said in a report this year published the American Chemical Society (ACS, its acronym in English).