LICE PLANET
	Dr. Catherine Combescot organizes many tests to better know and fight lice.
	For Dr. Combescot, it is necessary to find new products. In his fight against insects, man always creates super-resistant species.
	taux de parasitisme est important, pour effectuer des essais terrains. Dr. Combescot regularly go in distant countries, notably in India where the parasitism rate is high, to realize field tests.
	Indian sculpture representing monkeys’ delousing.
	Dr. Combescot’s field tests intend to have a new anti-lice molecule approved by the Ministry of Research.
	In Tirupati’s temple, Dr. Combescot collects lice contained in hair offered to the gods by Hindus.
	Test of a new molecule on collected lice (India).
	Tirupati (India), major place of hair trading.
	Lice festival organized at Jules Ferry school. It symbolizes the everyday fight against lice in kids’ heads.
	Campaign to increase public awareness against lice in a public housing unit district with a narrator.
	Campaign to increase public awareness against the social taboo of lice in a French school.
	American collector of lice combs. Barbara L. Thorne has invented and patented her own lice comb composed of 3 different combs which adapt to every head.
	This collection is unique in the world. It is composed of hundreds of models, from all over the world.
	Retirement day of Françoise Beauvais who owns a record in the fight against lice : more than 30 years in the therapeutic baths.
	Unconcerned by the social status of his host, the louse finds accommodation whether on the head of a tramp, or on the head of a sovereign… Consequently, the lice can really create social links…
	Egyptian women’s wigs were surmounted of perfumed grease cones, which asphyxiated lice when melting.
	Unconcerned by the social status of his host, the louse finds accommodation whether on the head of a tramp, or on the head of a sovereign… Consequently, the lice can really create social links…
	In Lisbon, Portugal, some men trained monkeys to delouse people.
	These old Bretons present the postal cards that put them in scene. In Brittany, lice hunting were a tradition. At a point that those scenes were immortalized on these postal cards.
	Banal and everyday activity, lice hunting was done without a comb, but with the couple thumb-index, called "morzoll al lou" in Breton ("lice hammer").
	Lice and delousing are still a way of socializing for Pygmies and Papuans. Young people delouse each other using their fingers.
	The "Isengue" dance for Pygmies is the signal of a collective "grooming" session that encourages encounters between the two sexes.
	Pygmies’ delousing session.
	Hans Gronvold is looking for longhaired ancestors’ skulls… In Greenland, lice are part of the country’s legends.
	The main legend is the one of the sea goddess. Marine animals would be born from the lice lost by the goddess. For many ethnic groups, delousing sessions had a divine dimension.
	Lucia Ludvigsen keeper of the Hummanac museum, presenting pictures of lice found in the hair and stomach of the Qilakitsoq mummies.
	Hans Gronvold is looking for longhaired ancestors’ skulls… In Greenland, lice are part of the country’s legends.
	The legend of the sea goddess who loses her lice is taught to Greenlander children.
	In Greenland’s schools is told the story of Poorustini, a little girl who was eating her lice.
	Coming back from the hunt, lice are looked for on marine animals, notably on seals.
	In the past, in Greenland, lice were a symbol of chance, which explains the importance of delousing sessions.
	In pre-Columbian civilizations, lice had a real value! Some poor people had nothing else to offer than bags of lice to pay their tax.
	These bags of lice represented months of a patient delousing work.
	In 20 years of work, Francois-Xavier Pajot (IRD), has listed lice from animal species.
	In Russia, body lice are back… In St Petersburg for example, they particularly affect the homeless people.
	Military and civil Russian doctors fear new infectious agents transmitted by lice.
	Lice can be found on every head and on every body, even on those shrunken heads…
	Pr. Adauto Goncalves de Araujo hunts lice to rewrite history. The louse is the older companion of man, and he can allow studying prehistoric man migrations.
	Fight against lice in poultry industrial breeding thanks to homeopathic medicine made from lice.
	Postal card illustrating lice hunting in Brittany, a real tradition.
	Therapeutic baths against lice in St-Louis Hospital in Paris.
	Representation of pediculosis by children’s drawings.
	In Sweden, in the middle age, the mayor of a town was elected thanks to a louse’s vote…
	"La Marie-Rose", one of the first products to fight against lice.
	Head louse, Pediculus Humanus Capitis, in the hair.
	Head louse hold on firmly to the hair thanks to his oversized claws.
	The young louse will have to evolve 3 times to become adult.
	Head lice are not transmitting any disease but are responsible for a physical nuisance, the "pruritus".
	Head louse, Pediculus Humanus Capitis, in hair.
	Head louse, Pediculus Humanus Capitis, female after her blood feed in hair.
	Pthirus Pubis, or "crab lice", lice cousin, squatters the bushy forest of our own privacy…