Listen "What’s eating you? Headlice!"
Episode Synopsis
Episode 1 of ASP Parasite Podcast: What’s eating you? is all about those tiny itchy and scratchy insects we all love to hate “Headlice”.
Our expert parasitologist is Associate Professor Vern Bowles from The University of Melbourne. Vern has studied parasites that live outside of the body also known as ectoparasites for most of his science career such as the sheep blowfly and the dreaded head lice. Vern worked on this for over 15 years, set up a company and developed a new treatment for head lice targeting different life stages.
For this story, Vern will give us his expert opinion about the ectoparasites head lice.
Our expert parasitologist is Associate Professor Vern Bowles from The University of Melbourne. Vern has studied parasites that live outside of the body also known as ectoparasites for most of his science career such as the sheep blowfly and the dreaded head lice. Vern worked on this for over 15 years, set up a company and developed a new treatment for head lice targeting different life stages.
For this story, Vern will give us his expert opinion about the ectoparasites head lice.
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