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Bed bugs are back because we realized the pesticides that kept them at bay had lots of unwanted consequences so we stopped using them. Actually, they would've
by saryant 11y ago
Bed bugs are back because we realized the pesticides that kept them at bay had lots of unwanted consequences so we stopped using them. Actually, they would've resurged anyways as there's evidence bed bugs were becoming resistant to many pesticides.
Considering they don't actually carry disease, they're just creepy, I'd hardly put them in the same category as serious tropical diseases. Buy yourself a PackTite and relax.
- anonymous48 11y agoBed bugs were eradicated in the US, not kept at bay. They only came back through their reintroduction by foreigners.
- saryant 11y agoBed bugs were never eradicated in the US. In any case, you're just as likely to run into them in a five-star Manhattan hotel as you are a fleabag motel in the Deep South.