Bedbugs as vectors (maybe even Herpes?)

[Kritters]

This thought has been nagging at me for quite some time. Not the herpes connection, but how they say bed bugs are harmess.

Huh! My arse, me thinks. One thing I have learned is that the available information prior to the internet was lame and research was fairly inconclusive. Now, THANKS to the internet, things will surely step up. No emperor will want anyone to see him naked.

I realize this is a stretch, but I intend to do further research, possibly linking bed bugs to herpes transmission. Don't ask me why, because I don't know. Just a hunch I think worth following. What the hey.

The bottom link is telling, I believe. Could have been manipulated for bio-warfare just like any other insect. How can they say it's an unlikely transmitter when it carries like, 60 some odd pathogens, and sticks it's sucker into our blood?

While there might be no herpes connection, I certainly believe there is definitely a disease transfer connection.

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In search of warm-bloodied creatures for their supply of food, bed bugs started out in the world attacking nest-bound critters, but have quickly learned how to adapt to human households. When a bed bug first hatches, they are about the size of a poppy seed. An adult measures around ¼ of an inch in length, which is oval in shape with a flattened appearance from top to bottom. At first, bed bugs are nearly white in color (right after molting) and become light tan, deep brown, or burnt orange when mature. The shade of their body color comes as a result of digesting meals of blood.

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Disease transmission
Bedbugs seem to possess all of the necessary prerequisites for being capable of passing diseases from one host to another, but there have been no known cases of bed bugs passing disease from host to host. There are at least twenty-seven known pathogens (some estimates are as high as forty-one) that are capable of living inside a bed bug or on its mouthparts. Extensive testing has been done in laboratory settings that also conclude that bed bugs are unlikely to pass disease from one person to another.[9] Therefore bedbugs are less dangerous than some more common insects such as the flea. However, transmission of Chagas disease or hepatitis B might be possible in appropriate settings.[10]

[Katinka]

Could be ALL bugs are causing disease, more or less? If it is true what I think then..well...we're in BIG trouble.. What could we use to repel them?

[Kritters]

Originally Posted by Katinka

Could be ALL bugs are causing disease, more or less? If it is true what I think then..well...we're in BIG trouble.. What could we use to repel them?

Well, I guess that's possible, Katink, but I see a tie in with Chagas & Hep B, which is not consistent with the information out there about them being harmless. Bugs which suck our blood obviously are NOT harmless and have the potential to spread disease. The fact that there is a new surge of bedbugs in old buildings, college dorms etc. is a very unsettling situation to me in light of this. So the bed bug, which is becoming a major problem is not an alarm to the officials and the public is kept in the dark about their potential for disease. The very fact that they can harbor around 60 different pathogens is freaky in itself!!!

The reason I'm on this, is because I keep looking back to see if I can pinpoint connections to how I had herpes as a kid. Why are there so many types of herpes? The bed bug originally only used trees and for some reason they crossed over and mutated to include animals, then humans. They are found in clean locations (our home was immaculate and we had them. I was bitten quite often until we finally moved away. How we got them I have no idea. that was in the 60's and thinking back, I developed allergies a few years later, as well as hearing loss. I remember in first year of high school, in the auditorium for orientation, I was completely deaf for a few days, and had horrendous ear infections. Granted, I believe I acquired my hearing loss pathogens from my mother, as did my sister, but I'm just trying to put two and two and two and two together.)

I don't really expect anyone to jump on this, but I think all thoughts are good to put out here just in case there might be some connection.

Oh, and that's when I first started getting fever blisters on my lips.

Kritts