![]() But the lice of 12 Zelena Street, Lviv, were not quite ordinary creatures. I had once or twice examined my children s cohabitants under a microscope and found them to be surprisingly intricate, greasy-brown creatures whose guts contained tiny but distinct canals of blood. Tarasyuk s lice were no different from the ones that I and millions of other parents combed from the scalps of our children during elementary school infestations. Why, one might ask, would anyone come all the way to Ukraine to look at lice? They are, after all, common loathsome insects, synonymous everywhere with disease and filth, wretchedness and neglect. Oleksandra Tarasyuk, the institute s polite but recalcitrant director, to let me watch the feeding of the lice. WEIGL 7Ĩ PREFACE A few years ago I found myself in a dim corridor at the Institute of Epidemiology and Hygiene in Lviv, Ukraine, trying to persuade Dr.
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