Word: lice
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Flaky Skin. Close's mixture of size and precision is disorienting. Faces would look like this to a louse, if lice could scan them: a fleshy landscape, dried salt pans of flaky skin, monstrous glittering folds of mucous membrane, each wrinkle a canyon, the nose a mountain, lakes for eyes. The effect is both real and hallucinatory at once, and it has a lot to offer on how we scan, decode and see the most ordinary configurations. Held in memory. Close's por traits marginally change every face one glimpses in the subway, or in a mirror...
...discovery was made not by a man who hunts ordinary bacteria, but by a microbiologist who specializes in leprosy and rickettsial diseases like typhus and spotted fever. The latter are characterized by fever, headaches and general malaise and are caused by bacteria-like microorganisms usually carried by ticks, lice and fleas. But when Dr. Joseph McDade, 36, examined the lung tissue of victims of last summer's outbreak, he found no trace of any rickettsiae...
...Public lice "itch like hell." Fiumara said...
Homemade remedies usually do not work, and can worsen the infection, Norins said. Lice eggs, cemented to public hair shafts, do not wash off with ordinary soap and water, he added...
Increased sexual activity has probably caused the recent rise in public lice infection incidents, Norins sniggered. In addition, public lice are now in the more rapid growth portion of a twenty year cycle, Fiumara said...