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How To Squash Your Fear of Bugs (and Other Phobias)

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Cockroaches

The egyptian book of the dead, written three thousand years ago, includes a spell for banishing cockroaches. But looking at it logically, it doesn't quite make sense to loathe cockroaches as much as we do. They aren't disease vectors like ticks or fleas, and they don't feed directly off f our blood. In fact, if we should be repulsed by any insect, it should definitely be the mosquito.

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