"Super Lice" Found in 25 States

[From article]
A strain of so-called ‘super lice’ has hit a reported 25 states, causing concern and frustration among parents because the bugs can’t be killed with most over-the-counter treatments. The treatments, known as pyrethroids, had a 100 percent success rate in 2000 against lice but now only work in 25 percent of cases, KSDK.com reported.
A new FDA-approved treatment called AirAlle, which was developed by Lice Clinics of America, has been found to be effective against the super lice, with treatments costing about $170.
“We use heated air, and we dehydrate the lice and the eggs in a single treatment,” Claire Roberts, CEO of Lice Clinics America, told KSDK.com. “It takes about an hour, and we guarantee it.”
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Parents should teach their children about the repercussions of sharing hats, hairbrushes and contact with another’s hair, KDSK.com reported.
For those parents whose children do come home with lice, experts caution not to panic and to stick to what they know. Old-fashioned nit-picking will help but may take longer than usual. Experts instruct parents to vacuum where hair has fallen, wash bedding in hot water, and throw stuff animals and clothing in a hot dryer for 20 to 30 minutes.

http://nypost.com/2016/02/26/super-lice-outbreak-hits-25-states/

‘Super lice’ outbreak hits 25 states
By Fox News
February 26, 2016 | 8:40pm

Severed Woman's Head Found In Western PA Woods

Artists renderings of an unidentified woman whose severed head was found in the woods in western Pennsylvania on Dec. 12.

Photo: Reuters

[From article]
Investigators in Pennsylvania said on Monday that red balls had been placed in the eye sockets of a woman’s embalmed head found a year ago in a case that may be linked to a growing black market for body parts.
Economy Borough Police Chief Michael O’Brien at a news conference appealed to the public for help identifying the woman, whose head was discovered in the woods by a child
walking home in the rural town about 22 miles northwest of Pittsburgh on Dec. 12, 2014.[. . .]
she remains unidentified, police said. She was described as Caucasian and about age 50.
Beaver County District Attorney Anthony Berosh said an investigation is under way and it encompasses a range of possibilities.
“There’s a black market on body parts and that market is pretty extensive,” Berosh said.
O’Brien said the head was found too far off rural Mason Road to have ended up there accidentally and animals moving the head had been ruled out because the embalming fluid would have made it unappealing.
“It didn’t roll off a truck. It just didn’t happen that way,” Berosh said.
[. . .]
Toxicology reports indicate the woman had trace amounts of drugs used to treat cardiac distress in her system, suggesting she may have died from heart failure, O’Brien said.
New information from hair and tooth enamel indicates that in the seven months leading up to her death, she moved up to four times and possibly lived in southwestern Pennsylvania, central Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia, northern Maryland or eastern New York, O’Brien said. Her last dental work was likely performed in the 1990s.

http://nypost.com/2015/12/15/severed-head-found-in-woods-may-be-linked-to-body-parts-black-market/

Severed head found in woods may be linked to body-parts black market
By Reuters
New York Post
December 15, 2015 | 10:15am

Get Ready For Full Body Transplants

Doctor plans to attach a living person’s head to a donor body in operation he says is not far off. Photograph: Alamy
Much too difficult. It is much easier and less time consuming to just do mind transplants. If Obama, Biden, Holder, the Clintons and Jonathan Gruber can do it, anyone can.

[From article]
Sergio Canavero, a doctor in Turin, Italy, has drawn up plans to graft a living person’s head on to a donor body and claims the procedures needed to carry out the operation are not far off.
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He has claimed for years that medical science has advanced to the point that a full body transplant is plausible, but the proposal has caused raised eyebrows, horror and profound disbelief in other surgeons.
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According to the procedure Canavero outlined this month, doctors would first cool the patient’s head and the donor’s body so their cells do not die during the operation. The neck is then cut through, the blood vessels linked up with thin tubes, and the spinal cord cut with an exceptionally sharp knife to minimise nerve damage. The recipient’s head is then moved on to the donor’s body.
The next stage is trickier. Canavero believes that the spinal cord nerves that would allow the recipient’s brain to talk to the donor’s body can be fused together using a substance called polyethylene glycol. To stop the patient moving, they must be kept in a coma for weeks. When they come round, Canavero believes they would be able to speak and feel their face, though he predicts they would need a year of physiotherapy before they could move the body.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/25/first-full-body-transplant-two-years-away-surgeon-claim

First full body transplant is two years away, surgeon claims
Doctor plans to graft a living person’s head on to a donor body using procedures he believes will soon be ready
Ian Sample, science editor
@iansample
Wednesday 25 February 2015 13.50 EST

Human Heads Used For Research Seized in Chicago

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/20589543/17-human-heads-found-at-ohare-airport

18 human heads found at O`Hare Airport will be cremated
Posted: Jan 15, 2013 8:14 AM EST Updated: Jan 15, 2013 2:54 PM EST
By Anita Padilla,
FOX 32 News reporter Chicago IL

Human Heads Left Near School in Mexico

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/human-heads-found-outside-mexico-school/story-e6frf7lf-1226148943664

Human heads found outside Mexico school
From correspondents in Acapulco, Mexico
AFP
Herald Sun Australia
September 28, 2011 10:37AM