On Apr 1, 2008, at 8:41 AM, Janice McDonald wrote: > But places far north, or out west where the humidity is so much lower, > places where the winters are way longer, well, we just have different > critters.
And being 50 years of compulsive public health awareness later helps too. I grew up in a poor immigrant neighborhood in Philadelphia, and I thought it was perfectly normal for the school nurse to examine us monthly for cooties (head lice), which I did catch from some unsavory little playmates . . . And normal to have several children in class with shaved heads covered with a nylon stocking cap (ringworm). We spent summers in the country where I learned about chiggers, and discovered that there wrere leeches in the creek we all swam in. Mostly we survived all that. > Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/ http://www.dslextreme.com/~napha/HighPoint/
