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What does delousing mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of delouse
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Among the substances currently being studied for their potential as delousing agents in salmon are the pyrethroid insecticides.
Overall, 56 of the children were treated using the Bug Busting method and 70 using over-the-counter delousing products.
Then they made us strip, hosed us down with cold water, and sprayed us with a delousing powder.
While the commanding officer was away, a guard at Auschwitz used the delousing chemical Zyklon B on some prisoners.
It seems probable that in the future, synthetic pyrethroids will be of more interest than pyrethrum as possible delousing agents.
The E. P. A. regulates only one component of pharmaceuticals, lindane, an ingredient in delousing shampoos.

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