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Because the disease is spread through direct skin-to-skin contact or through clothes and bedding, UHS instructed everyone to launder their clothing, bedding, and shoes. Anything that was not washed had to remain tied in a plastic bag for 14 days, and students had to apply Permethrin insecticide cream to their entire body for eight to 14 hours...
Because the disease is spread through direct skin-to-skin contact or through clothes and bedding, UHS instructed everyone to launder their clothing, bedding, and shoes. Anything that was not washed had to remain tied in a plastic bag for 14 days, and students had to apply Permethrin insecticide cream to their entire body for eight to 14 hours...
...humans). Two Saturdays ago, three Pennypacker residents reached the end of their ropes after discovering rashes. And so they took their queries to the one place we all know and trust on campus: University Health Services (UHS). These rash-ed freshmen emerged from UHS armed with a bottle of Permethrin and a deep sense of shame. Of course, those naughty students guilty of rubbing too closely up against one of the infected (or of just living in their dorm) were recommended to do the same. Much like God punished the Egyptians with locusts, the promiscuous students among us shall...
...waiting for laundry in the Hurlbut basement. “It’s just part of being in college—everyone in the dorm having to go through the same thing because of an outbreak,” Ingersoll said. UHS officials offered tubes of Permethrin insecticide cream in the lobby of Pennypacker yesterday along with large plastic bags for laundry. Each student was instructed to apply the cream to the entire body after bathing and to leave the cream on for 8 to 14 hours. Faciilities and Maintenance Operations cleaned every room in the dormitory...
...Insect repellents can be sticky or stinky. How about a shirt that keeps pesky pests away? Ex Officio's Buzz Off shirts, $22 and up, are made with permethrin, the same insecticide used in long-lasting antimalaria bed nets...