Infestations began flaring up with a vengeance. But around 1995, the bedbug tides again turned.
While bedbugs are one of the few parasites that live closely with humans yet do not transmit a serious disease, they do cause nasty red rashes in some of their victims, not to mention the psychological terror of knowing that your body becomes a buffet for crawling bloodsuckers after dark.īy the 1940s this age-old parasite was mostly eradicated from homes and hotels in the developing world. When the lights go off for those suffering from this parasitic infestation today, from under the mattress or behind the bedboard creeps up to 150,000 of the rice grain-sized insects (though average infestations are around 100 insects). The ancient Greeks complained of bedbugs, as did the Romans. This adult male bedbug wants to suck your blood.įor thousands of years, humans have shared their beds with blood-sucking parasites.
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