A Lousy, Nit-Picking Epidemic
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In the end, the worst pain inflicted by the louse may be psychological, the disgust and embarrassment of discovering that one's head is an ecosystem for insects. "It is a very traumatic experience," says Copeland, whose daughter suffered from head lice while attending an upscale girls' school in San Francisco. "I think it goes back to some primitive reaction. We just go crazy with lice."
--With reporting by Dan Cray/Los Angeles, Chandrani Ghosh and Wendy King/Washington and Andrea Sachs/New York
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