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Monroe Countys bedbug problem is far from over, experts …

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Home News Monroe Countys bedbug problem is far from over, experts and survey agree February 8, 2012 Bloomington, Indiana --

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By Christy Mullins

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On the southwest side of Bloomington is a house that is so infested with bedbugs, the 85-year-old woman who lives there is anemic from their bites, people assisting her say.

Black streaks of bedbug feces descend like mold from every wall and dot every newspaper she has collected inside. Even the mail outside has bedbugs crawling on it. So does the front door. Her furniture and counter tops are encrusted with black stains. Bedbugs jump from the couch to her coat, and she brushes them off like flies, if she has any reaction at all.

The woman would not be interviewed for this story, but bedbug professionals across Monroe County have visited the house and they all say the same thing. It is the worst case of infestation theyve seen in the area, maybe ever.

It is tragically bad, said Carol Cobine, whose professional bedbug sniffing dog has detected millions of bugs and eggs in the womans house in Broadview.

I cant overstate how bad it is. ... Wall to wall, floor to ceiling, every item in this womans house has evidence of bedbug feces. I am just, literally, not kidding. In the kitchen. On the curtains. The sad part is, this woman has no money for remediation.

It will cost $8,300 for a pest control company out of Evansville to fumigate the house, which requires pitching a tent over the entire property for two days and gassing the bugs out.

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Bedbugs Could Spread Deadly, Heart-Damaging Chagas Disease

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It was previously thought that Chagas disease, which kills an estimated 50,000 people per year, was exclusively carried by an insect called the kissing bug. But new research shows that bedbugs can also spread the disease, at least among mice.

University of Pennsylvania epidemiologist Michael Levy says hes worried that bedbugs could distribute the parasitic disease among people, although there is no proof yet that this is happening.

Chagas disease is caused by a parasitic protozoan called Trypanosoma cruzi that slowly attacks internal organs like the heart. At first, it has very few outward signs. Then, about 20 years after infection, some 20 percent of infected people develop very serious problems, including arrhythmias and even sudden death from cardiac arrest, Levy tells Newsweek.

Due to this time lag and lack of recognition, Chagas disease has become a silent epidemicits the most deadly parasite in the Americas, but the public doesnt know anything about it, Levy says.

The parasite is spread by kissing (or assassin) bugs, which generally feed at night and go for uncovered areas like the face, often around the eyes or lips. These insects dont directly spread the disease through their bite, but rather through feces; the protozoan can be transmitted when their waste is spread into wounds via scratching, or by entering the body through the eyes or mouth, Levy says.

Luckily, kissing bugs cannot generally get to humans at night if they live in well-made buildings. Thats one reason why Chagas disease transmission isnt a significant problem in the U.S.the few cases seen in the States are mostly brought in by travelers returning from Latin America.

In the past few years, however, bedbug populations have skyrocketed in the U.S. If these insects could spread the disease, and, says Levy, it would be a disaster. If Chagas starts to spread, we wouldn't know it, due to the slow nature of the disease.

In a studypublished this week in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, researchers showed that bedbugs can become infected after feeding on diseased mice. They also found in another experiment that protozoa-carrying bedbugs can pass on the parasite to mice.

Since the protozoa infects many mammals, including mice and humans, theres no reason to think bedbugs couldnt spread the disease among people too, Levy says, although he concedes there may be some as-yet-unknown reason why bedbugs couldnt transmit the disease.