Cleopatra, for example, was buried with solid gold lice combs, while other Egyptians would shave their entire bodies to try and get rid of the parasites. So, it's a problem we've had for a while ...

And the job is getting harder. Commonly used chemical products aren’t working as well as they once did, meaning head lice are harder to kill. You can still rid your children of lice – but it ...

The tiny critters can be tricky to get rid of; they can't be drowned, the louse camouflages her eggs with hair pigment making it harder to spot, and a lot of the treatments target the moving lice ...