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Ep 117 Bedbugs: Bug-bitten and bedeviled
This Podcast Will Kill You
Bed Bugs and the Age of Elegance
The dogma for a long time was that because we've never seen sustained transmission of any human pathogens from these bed bugs, it must be that they're incapable of being vectors. Right. But now we know that that's not true biologically. What is the barrier? Is it a physiological barrier? Probably not. But is it an ecological barrier? Seems like likely. It's interesting to think about it as an ecological and environmental barrier rather than a biological one. So yeah, that's, that's what I have, Erin. Bed bugs are everywhere. They're itchy, but at least they're not giving us diseases. As far as we know.
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