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Killing Clothes Lice by Holding Infested Clothes Away from Hosts for 10 Days to Control Louseborne Relapsing Fever Bahir Dah Ethiopia
Louseborne relapsing fever (LBRF) was once a cosmopolitan disease, but it now occurs only in the Horn of Africa. Recent cases in refugees to Europe made LBRF topical again. Crowded boarding houses and church dwellings in Ethiopia are analogous to the crowded air-raid shelters of World War II. Thus, we might learn from experiments the London School of Tropical Hygiene and Medicine conducted during World War II. When the vector of Borrelia recurrentis (Pediculus humanus lice) was held away from the host for 10 days, 100% of nymphal and adult lice starved to death and 100% of eggs did not hatch. We hypothesize that holding infested clothes away from hosts in plastic shopping bags will kill enough lice to control LBRF in Ethiopia. Owning 2 sets of clothes might be useful; 1 set might be held in a plastic shopping bag for 10 days to kill lice and their eggs.
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机译：虱子传播性发热（LBRF）曾经是一种世界性疾病，但现在仅在非洲之角（Horn of Africa）发生。最近前往欧洲的难民案件使LBRF再次成为热门话题。埃塞俄比亚拥挤的寄宿房和教堂住宅类似于第二次世界大战拥挤的防空洞。因此，我们可以从二战期间伦敦热带卫生与医学学院的实验中学到东西。当轮回疏螺旋体（Pediculus humanus虱）的载体远离宿主10天时，100％的若虫和成年虱饿死并且100％的卵未孵化。我们假设，将感染的衣服放在塑料购物袋中，使其远离宿主，将杀死足以控制埃塞俄比亚LBRF的虱子。拥有两套衣服可能会有用。可以将1套玩具放在塑料购物袋中10天，以杀死虱子及其卵。
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