Head lice are tiny insects that live by sucking the blood of human scalps. They lay eggs in the scalp, known as nits, and can move from one human to another simply by walking across touching heads.
4-11: age group most commonly affected by head lice
3m: children are estimated to get lice each year
7-10: number of days before nits hatch into lice.
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