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Bed bugs got their name because they like to be as close to their human hosts as possible. Since they are after nourishment found in human blood, the most ideal place for them to reside is in the bedroom furniture, bedding and carpeting. Bed bugs are becoming more and more resilient to chemical treatments, so the best treatment option for eradicating a bed bug infestation is through the use of heat.

Heat treatment has several benefits over alternative methods. Since the approach is chemical-free, there are no lingering odors or allergy risks to the homes occupants. It is a total-kill technique, meaning bed bugs in all the stages of life cannot withstand the treatment regardless of how inaccessible they are. Home furnishings and belongings do not sustain any damage due to the heat, and, best of all, treatment can be completed in one session, avoiding the problem of reinfestations.

The eMaster Pro electric unit operates by using heated room air to treat infested areas of the home. Air temperature is raised as air passes over the units heating coils and is blown into rooms up to 375 square feet in size. With no generator required, this unit is portable and can easily treat dorms, hotel rooms and small apartments.

Direct-fired propane heating units are the most common heater used to treat bed bug infestations in Houston. For the safety of the home and its occupants, the units stay outside the building and air as hot as 210F is forced into the infected areas of the structure. Gas detection is performed to ensure good air quality for anyone exposed.

Like the eMaster Pro unit, this heater effectively raises the rooms temperature to levels not tolerable to bed bugs in any life stage. All areas of the home, including interior and exterior walls, are heated, ensuring complete extermination. Treatment with the direct-fired propane heaters also requires only one session and does not harm the home or its contents. Since it is chemical-free, the treatment poses no harm to pets or small children following the process.

Bed bugs are hardy, resistant little pests that usually take repeated attempts to clear out of a home when using chemicals or home-based techniques. Fortunately, skilled professionals experienced in electric and direct-fired propane heating units are able to effectively eliminate a bed bug infestation from the home in a single treatment session. Heat treatment is the best way to ensure that a home can return to pest-free conditions without concern that reinfestations may occur.

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WhiskeyGirl Generations ago, there was a war against bed bugs. The high brows found solutions. IIRC, it was a simple as adding a small amount of pesticide to soft furniture like couches, chairs, mattresses...

Generations of Americans grew up without first hand experience of bed bugs. Same with lice. For generations, "No Nits" was the policy in school. Past generations didn't want anyone to suffer from bed bugs or lice.

Then there were people worried about a little pesticide and those few people who might be sensitive. The solution? No pesticide and bed bug infestations pop up all over.

Then there were people that worried that some children might feel bad because they got sent home from school for having lice or nits. Can't have any child feeling bad or learning about hygiene. So, just send a note home and let every child get lice in school. No more "No Nits" policies. Having lice doesn't mean your icky or bad.

It seems like the progressives among us would rather have people (especially poor people and children) living with bed bugs and lice than living parasite free.

What about Chagas? I keep hearing that it's being spread by illegal aliens flooding the country. The new lice/bed bug super parasite? I've read that Chagas KILLS!

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Triatomine bugs live primarily in mud, thatch or adobe huts in Mexico, South America and Central America. They hide in crevices in the walls or roof during the day, then come out at night often feeding on sleeping humans.

Infected bugs defecate after feeding, leaving behind T. cruzi parasites on the skin. The parasites can then enter your body through your eyes, mouth, a cut or scratch, or the wound from the bug's bite.

Scratching or rubbing the bite site helps the parasites enter your body. Once in your body, the parasites multiply and spread.

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The role of the bloodsucking triatomine bugs as vectors of Chagas diseasewhich affects 6 to 8 million worldwide, mostly in Latin America, and kills about 50,000 a yearhas long been recognized. The insects infect people not through their bite but feces, which they deposit on their sleeping host, often around the face, after feeding. Bed bugs, on the other hand, are usually considered disease-free nuisances whose victims are left with only itchy welts from bites and sleepless nights.

In a study published online this week in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, senior author Michael Z. Levy, PhD, assistant professor in the department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvanias Perelman School of Medicine, and researchers at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Peru conducted a series of laboratory experiments that demonstrated bi-directional transmission of T. cruzi between mice and bed bugs.

In the first experiment run at the Zoonotic Disease Research Center in Arequipa, Peru, the researchers exposed 10 mice infected with the parasite to 20 uninfected bed bugs every three days for a month. Of about 2,000 bed bugs used in the experiment, the majority acquired T. cruzi after feeding on the mice. In a separate experiment to test transmission from bug to mouse, they found that 9 out of 12 (75 percent) uninfected mice acquired the parasite after each one lived for 30 days with 20 infected bed bugs.

In a third experiment, investigators succeeded in infecting mice by placing feces of infected bed bugs on the animals skin that had either been inflamed by bed bug bites, or scraped with a needle. Four out of 10 mice (40 percent) acquired the parasite by this manner; 1 out of 5 (20 percent) were infected when the skin was broken by the insects bites only. A final experiment performed at the Penn bed bug lab in Philadelphia demonstrated that bed bugs, like triatomines, defecate when they feed.

Weve shown that the bed bug can acquire and transmit the parasite. Our next step is to determine whether they are, or will become, an important player in the epidemiology of Chagas disease, Levy said. There are some reasons to worrybed bugs have more frequent contact with people than kissing bugs, and there are more of them in infested houses, giving them ample opportunity to transmit the parasite. But perhaps there is something important we dont yet understand about them that mitigates the threat.

T. cruzi is also especially at home in the guts of bed bugs. Ive never seen so many parasites in an insect, said Renzo Salazar, a biologist at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia and co-author on the study. I expected a scenario with very low infection, but we found many parasitesthey really replicate well in the gut of the bed bugs.

Bed bugs and kissing bugs are distant cousins but share many striking similarities. Both insects hide in household cracks and crevices waiting for nightfall and the opportunity to feed on sleeping hosts. They are from the same order of insects (Hemiptera) and both only feed on blood. (One main difference is their size: kissing bugs are five times as big as a bed bug). With so much in common, it seemed logical to the authors that the kissing bugs most infamous trait, the transmission of T. cruzi, is also shared by the bed bug.

Other investigators have shared this suspicion. In 1912, just three years after Carlos Chagas described the transmission of the disease by kissing bugs, French parasitologist mile Brumpt recounted that he had infected almost 100 bed bugs exposed to an infectious mouse, and then used them to infect two healthy mice. Decades later an Argentine group replicated his work. These experiments, largely ignored during the recent bed bug resurgence, missed one key point.

Mice can hunt and eat bed bugs, said Ricardo Castillo-Neyra, DVM, PhD, coauthor and postdoctoral fellow at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia and Penn. The older studies were almost certainly only documenting oral transmission of the parasite. Our work shows for the first time that bed bugs can transmit the parasite when their feces are in contact with broken skin, the route by which humans are usually infected.

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FARMINGTON Bed bugs dont discriminate.

They are a true hitchhiker, said Bruce Carter, owner of Carter Services Inc., a local pest control company.

The pests dont care about age, race or political affiliation.

Occupants of People Assisting the Homeless, a Farmington homeless shelter, say bed bugs have been biting them at night. But Executive Director Jonna Sharpe said the pests were eradicated by a pest control business.

Carter said his technicians often respond to two or three bed bugs calls a week in Farmington. The pests often infest apartment complexes, motels, and hotels, but Carters technicians have fumigated cars, as well, he said.

The pests dont transmit disease and arent a public health risk, New Mexico Department of Health Spokesman Kenny Vigil said.

Many local agencies institute policies to discourage bed bugs. Several years ago, when the pests were closing hotels down across the country, Family Crisis Center Executive Director Opal Cole created a policy for her shelter.

Her staff look for bite marks on clients or dark lines of the bugs on walls, among other common signs, she said. If they find any signs, they quarantine the space and strip down the room. What can be washed is cleansed in hot water and what cant be, such as shoes or bags, is sprayed, she said.

It can get expensive, she said, adding that her shelter doesnt have bed bugs.

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Specifically The Big Fuss Regarding GMOs?

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3. Along with Bt kind GMO plants, there is the really real concern that over time, unwanted pests will develop resistance to Bt crops producing so-called super bugs. This particular super frustrate phenomenon is certainly occurring at the moment.

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We might be taking pleasure in reduced pesticide and herbicide use plus increased yields due to GMO crops right now however at exactly what cost? What cost to our health plus environmental surroundings? Additionally, as super bed bugs New Jersey (visit link) and super weeds continue maximizing their numbers, we will most likely view a jump in pesticide / herbicide use since farmers fight this fresh onslaught as well as a following drop within yields. And exactly what will occur then? The particular Monsantos of the globe will no doubt visit our rescue with the new kind of GMO item to fight these brand new super pests and extremely weeds so the cycle will certainly continue.

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