In a message dated 00-05-09 00:05:55 EDT, you write:
<< With the naked eye nothing was
> visible, but with a 30x
> microscope, he was able to see 8-legged light-colored "cooties" on my
> eyelashes.
>>
I recall from a medical-veterinary entomology course in grad school 15 years
ago that most (or all) humans harbor a mite that lives in the follicles of
our eyelashes. It's apparently harmless, so we didn't spend much time on it.
Maybe that's your cootie?
Matt Higdon
mid MO, mid USA
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