How come you only hear about or suffer headlice at the beginning of the school year?

Question

Is it me or is it a September epidemic? I know kids get it from other kids, sharing hats and combs, but where is the contracter getting it? And why is it always in the summer? And if the only way to get lice is to contract it, who got it first?

Answer 1

Kids go away on the holidays with their family. They catch it from someone else, take it back to school at the beginning of the year, everyone else gets it, they treat it and for the rest of the year that's the only kids they see so it's a nice clean little school. :]--

I dunno, why is the sky blue?

Answer 2

in Florida, they check for head lice about once a month.  it's worse in the winter when kids wear coats.  the lice jump from collar to collar.

Answer 3

They have it all along and some parents won't treat their kid's heads like they should!