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Get to know your face mites

2022-06-23 00:00:00

I've been isolating the past week or so, to make sure I didn't catch COVID on my recent trip to Portugal. It's been fine. I work, write, eat, watch trash tv. It's getting a little boring, to be honest. But it's definitely not lonely, now that I've learned I'm never alone – I've got mites—specifically Demodex folliculorum—living on my face, and guess what? So do you! I'll never be lonely again! Hurrah!

Michelle Starr at ScienceAlert.com has the whole story. Here's a fascinating and sort of horrifying excerpt:
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