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According to AARP Healthy Living article "To Kill Ticks: Dry Clothes, Then Wash Them" studies are cited that clothes should be dried first, then washed. https://blog.aarp.org/2013/04/03/to-kill-ticks-dry-clothes-then-wash-them/#livefyre-comments.

To Kill Ticks:  https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/avoid/on_people.html.

To Kill Ticks:  https://tickencounter.org/ticksmart/tips 

To Kill Ticks: : Nelson, C.A., et al., The heat is on: Killing blacklegged ticks in residential washers and dryers to prevent tickborne diseases. Ticks Tick-borne Dis. (2016), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2016.04.016

To Kill Lice: https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/lice/head/treatment.html 

To Kill Lice: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/documents/Module10.pdf 

To Kill Bed Bugs:  https://www.ncsl.org/Portals/1/Documents/environ/envhealth/Bed_Bug_PP_11-16.pdf 

To Kill Bed Bugs:  https://www.michigan.gov/documents/emergingdiseases/Getting_the_Bed_Bugs_Out_Guide_442175_7.pdf 

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