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Upon their arrival to Ellis Island, they were promptly doused in kerosene to delouse them after the voyage.—
Rachel Linden,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025 He was fingerprinted, photographed, made to strip and told to brace himself for a tub of delousing liquid.—
Lizzie Presser,
ProPublica,
16 Oct. 2019 Taking the opposing view is Alexios Mantzarlis, the head of the International Fact-Checking Network at the Poynter Institute, who is working with Facebook to delouse the News Feed of falsehoods.—
Derek Thompson,
The Atlantic,
10 May 2018