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Lice boutique tackles parasites (audio slideshow)

Lice nit on hair
Gilles San Martin - wikimedia
Most animals get some form of lice. We get these little beauties. A lice nit attached to hair.

It's something a lot of parents dread. Lice in your kid's hair.

Pesticides in shampoo form is one way to tackle the problem, but some people go pesticide-free.

Kyle Norris filed a report on Rapunzel's Lice Boutique in Ann Arbor for the Environment Report. I tagged along with her with a camera when she visited a family getting a treatment and we put together this slide show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSGvKprJMhU

Mark Brush was the station's Digital Media Director. He succumbed to a year-long battle with glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, in March 2018. He was 49 years old.