Gross Science | You Have Mites Living On Your Face @grossscienceshow | Uploaded 9 years ago | Updated 1 hour ago
Right now, there are tiny mites eating, laying eggs, dying, and leaking feces on your face.
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Your Wild Life—Meet Your Mites:
http://bit.ly/1KBhGaT

Mites and Rosacea:
http://jmm.sgmjournals.org/content/61/Pt_11/1504.full.pdf+html?sid=29c72a69-5b27-422d-a43d-557697566279

Credits

Host, Animator, Editor
Anna Rothschild

DP, Sound, Writer
Kristen Clark

Many thanks to Dr. Dan Fergus and Dr. Anne A. Madden.

Music: “Moondots and Polkabeams”
©Podington Bear

Images and Video

Image of Face Mite and Video of Mite Laying Egg
©Your Wild Life, North Carolina State University
Note: Face mite belonged to Brian Malow, Curator of the SECU Daily Planet and Science Comedian

Acne Rosacea, man
Wellcome Library, London/A. Henning

Blepharitis
Wikimedia Common/clubtable

SFX

Cockroaches
Freesound/StateAardvark¬
(used with permission from author)

Squeak Pack/squeak_10
Freesound/Corsica_S

Bubbles Popping
Freesound/ch0cchi

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