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Dear Pam and others afflicted by seabather's eruption,<BR>
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Dr. Alina Szmant and other researchers from the Univ. of Miami collaborated in 1992 in the discovery that seabather's eruption, mistakenly thought to be caused by "sea lice," was really caused by the stinging larvae of the thimble jellyfish <I>Linuche unquiculata.</I> The web site <U>http://www.fau.edu/safe/sea-lice.html</U> is an excellent resource on the subject; and includes photos of the organism and patients, and prevention and treatment. A site with additional treatment info. for various bothersome marine critters is <U>http://www.scubadiving.com/training/medicine/booboos.shtml</U>. I was not able to access this safety soap site, but it sounds promising <U>http://safetysoap.com/SeaLice/attentio.htm</U> (if anyone gets in let me know).<BR>
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</U>Kathy Hall<BR>
Victim in Puerto Rico<BR>
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> From: Pam Muller <pmuller@seas.marine.usf.edu> <BR>
> To: coral-list@coral.aoml.noaa.gov <BR>
> Subject: "Sea lice"<BR>
> Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 11:33:03 -0400 (EDT)<BR>
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>Attention Researchers in the Florida Keys:<BR>
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>Those charming little friends lovingly called "sea lice" are thick and<BR>
>pesky in the neuston in Keys waters these days. <BR>
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>What exactly are they? I have heard everything from firecoral larvae to<BR>
>small jelly's. Or can several types of tiny cnideria produce the same<BR>
>response in sensitive individuals?<BR>
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>To quote an old song: "Gonna need an ocean ----- of calamine lotion" <BR>
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>Happy scratching!<BR>
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>Pamela Hallock Muller<BR>
>Department of Marine Science<BR>
>University of South Florida<BR>
>140 Seventh Avenue South<BR>
>St. Petersburg, FL 33701 USA<BR>
>pmuller@marine.usf.edu<BR>
>Phone: 727-553-1567<BR>
>FAX: 727-553-1189 NOTE NEW AREA CODE!!!<BR>
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>"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what<BR>
>nobody has thought." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -<BR>
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