When my editor asked if I’d like to write about going shower-free for a week, all I could think of was that car ride. It saddened me to discover, then, that the topic of conversation that afternoon would be a history of freshwater duck lice in that very lake. Fun fact: Duck Lice, also known as Swimmer’s Itch or cercarial dermatitis, is extremely common in slow-moving freshwater. “You have duck lice,” my brain screamed. The imaginary duck lice was gone, I had dodged a pre-hormonal acne outbreak and .

Source: thestar August 30, 2016 11:26 UTC