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> Bed bugs are a thousand times worse! Yeah, no. Bed bugs don't kill you. Mosquitoes do.
by joecool1029 7y ago
> Bed bugs are a thousand times worse!
Yeah, no. Bed bugs don't kill you. Mosquitoes do.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoBed bugs have long been assumed to be essentially a harmless nuisance, but research increasingly suggests they can transmit Chagga's Disease, the same infection carried by "Kissing Bugs" (so called because they frequently bite a person near the mouth). https://entomologytoday.org/2018/01/30/study-further-evidence-bed-bugs-transmit-chagas-disease-pathogen/ https://entomologytoday.org/2018/01/30/study-further-evidenc...
- joecool1029 7y agoInteresting. I am in NJ and someone I work with just got cardiomyopathy from Chagas (heart down to like 25% efficiency now), no idea how she picked it up. I will ask her if she ever had a bed bug infestation.