From: rsw@therandymon.com   
      
   JAB  writes:   
      
   > Super Lice Resistant To Over-The-Counter Treatment Hit 25 US States   
   >   
   > "Aptly named 'super lice,' which are resistant to OTC drugs and   
   > treatment, hit 25 states in the U.S. affected states include Illinois   
   > and Missouri.   
   >   
   > Back in 2000, pyrethroids worked 100 percent of the time, but dropped   
   > to just 25 percent in 2013. Scientists found that the current super   
   > lice are resistant to chemicals found in majority of OTC treatments.   
   >   
   > The Lice Clinics of America rolled out a new treatment called AirAllé   
   > that can effectively treat super lice cases."   
   >   
      
   Interesting, but not surprising.  Put this phenomenon on the same list   
   as the strains of malaria that are now resistant to all known drugs we   
   used over the past 40 years to control or prevent it.  I've spent about   
   20 of the past years living in malarial countries, so I'm well aware of   
   what malaria can do to you.  But I haven't taken the drugs - imagine   
   what 20 years of anti-malarials must do to your liver.  Well, that and a   
   lot of scotch ...   
      
   We may well look back at the period 1940-2020 as some sort of momentary   
   lull in our otherwise losing struggle against diseases and critters.   
   And anyway, ecological science shows that any creature that   
   overpopulates its ecosystems eventually attracts the notice of predators   
   that gain in strength to try to restore balance to the system.   
      
   Everyone else is looking skyward for the asteroid that will end modern   
   civilization.  I think it will be an insect and some rapidly-transmitted   
   disease.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)