head lice

In my school, head lice is going around. About 5 people in my class were absent because of it. A head lice is a kind of bug that feeds on the blood from the scalp. It's really contagious and spreads when a person who has head lice put their head close to someone else's. The egg of a lice is called a nit. It is shown in the second picture. Other facts about lice: here. Now the school nurse comes every week to check our hair making sure we don't have it. I'm glad that I don't have it !!