A YouTube video shows the unsettling sight of millions of lice crawling through a girl’s hair in what experts have described as an extreme case of head lice.
In the video, a mother attempts to run a fine-toothed nit comb through her daughter’s coarse hair, which is filled with countless squirming lice.
Dr. Alejandra Perotti, a lecturer at the University of Reading’s School of Biological Sciences, said that lice “are very common in the UK and Europe, but not to this level.”
“I work in forensic sciences and these types of cases are found in cases of neglected children or the elderly,” Perotti said. “You also see it in cases of homeless people.”
