Word: pediculus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...task of nitpicking seems oddly out of date in an age when modern medicine has made so many gains against maladies far more serious than lice. Why, 20 years ago, a bottle of Kwell, a hot dryer and a good cleaning did the job. But today's louse, a.k.a. Pediculus humanus capitis, which nests in 12 million new heads annually, is a hardier bug, having grown resistant to the prescription drugs lindane and Elimite and the over-the-counter permethrin drug Nix, which remain imperfect mainstays in the treatment of lice. "The pyrethrins [RID, Pronto and A-200 Pyrinate] aren...
...just in Gaithersburg. Pediculus humanus capitis, the human head louse, is back in alarming numbers in school systems from New York to California. The epidemic had nearly been stemmed decades ago by a generation of chemical shampoos and rinses, but now the insect appears to be backed by a force more powerful than any shampoo: evolution...