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If you ever needed a reason to curb your selfie addiction, here it is.

According to experts, getting up close and personal with others for a cell phone picture might run you the risk of catching lice.

Yep, that is happening. Apparently, the head-rubbing contact allows lice to jump into your hair.

“I’ve seen a huge increase of lice in teens this year. Typically it’s younger children I treat, because they’re at higher risk for head-to-head contact. But now, teens are sticking their heads together every day to take cell phone pics,” Marcy McQuillan of Nitless Noggins, a lice removal service, told SFist.

Vanessa Mor of Oakland’s Lice Control told CNET she’s also seen an uptick in lice in teens and young adults. She didn’t blame selfies, but didn’t dismiss the idea either.

“That makes a lot of sense. In order to get it, you have to be direct contact — sitting on the same towel, sharing headphones together or using someone else’s hair curler, sharing hats, sweaters and scarves,” Mor was quoted as saying.

But don’t get too alarmed. Not all experts are buying what these lice removal experts are selling.

“Wherever these louse salons open a new branch, there always seems to be an epidemic. It’s good for business,” Dr. Richard J. Pollack of the Harvard School of Public Health told NBC News.

Pollack, who also runs the pest identification and guidance service IdentifyUS, said he’s seen no evidence that lice is spreading among selfie-snapping teens, or any other set of teens for that matter. Teens almost never have lice, he said.

Whatever the case, it does give us a bit of pause when it comes to the selfie game. We’re not really here for bugs in our hair.

Note: No Heidi Klums were harmed in the creation of the above selfie.

SOURCE: Huffington Post | PHOTO CREDIT: Getty

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