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  • Healthcare Triage: Bedbugs Are Awful, but They’re Unlikely to Give You a Disease

      June 8, 2015 at 12:58 pm
      Aaron Carroll

    Austin has been asking me to do an episode on bedbugs for quite some time. I’ve been pushing it off, because I hate bugs. But they’re back, and he asked me again, and you can only avoid the pain for so long.

    Bedbugs are the topic of this week’s Healthcare Triage.

    For those of you who want to read more, here you go:

    • Top 10 Myths about Bedbugs
    • Costly traumatic insemination and a female counter-adaptation in bed bugs
    • Bed Bug Reproduction and Lifecycle
    • Homosexual interactions in bed bugs: alarm pheromones as male recognition signals
    • Bed Bugs FAQs

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