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While bed bugs carry a lot of stigma, they are not disease carriers. To date, no published study has demonstrated a causal relationship between bed bugs and in
by thelastgallon 3y ago
While bed bugs carry a lot of stigma, they are not disease carriers.
To date, no published study has demonstrated a causal relationship between bed bugs and infectious disease transmission in humans. Also, we present and propose to expand on previous hypotheses as to why bed bugs do not transmit human pathogens. Bed bugs may contain “neutralizing factors” that attenuate pathogen virulence and, thereby, decrease the ability of bed bugs to transmit infectious disease: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5007277/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5007277/
- throwaway290 3y agoThis is awesome. Now I wonder if I'm similarly wrong about mosquitoes... (edit: those suckers do of course transmit, malaria and so on, but not sure about other diseases like hiv or hepatitis, haven't heard of mosquitoes as vector?)
- Cockbrand 3y agoUnfortunately not, they're considered "the world's deadliest animal" https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/stories/2019/world-deadliest-animal.html https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/stories/2019/world-deadlies... [Edit: posted before your edit. Bonus points for the "suckers" pun :) ]
- throwaway290 3y agoYeah I realized after posting that "do mosquitoes transmit?" is a silly question:)
- idontknoworcare 3y ago"Decrease the ability to transmit infection diseases" Why dont they say stop and not decrease ? So they can transmit pathogens ? How did this paper get published
- bratwurst3000 3y agoThats science slang . Science is rarely absolute.