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Re:Bedbug crisis sparks political row in Paris as insect ‘sc... by thelastgallon on Saturday September 30, 2023 @06:30AM (#37714154)
While bed bugs carry a lot of stigma, they are not disease carriers.

To date, no published study has demonstrated a causal relationship between bed bugs and infectious disease transmission in humans. Also, we present and propose to expand on previous hypotheses as to why bed bugs do not transmit human pathogens. Bed bugs may contain “neutralizing factors” that attenuate pathogen virulence and, thereby, decrease the ability of bed bugs to transmit infectious disease: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5007277/

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Re:Bedbug crisis sparks political row in Paris as insect ‘sc... by throwaway290 on Saturday September 30, 2023 @06:48AM (#37714224)
This is awesome. Now I wonder if I'm similarly wrong about mosquitoes... (edit: those suckers do of course transmit, malaria and so on, but not sure about other diseases like hiv or hepatitis, haven't heard of mosquitoes as vector?)
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Re:Bedbug crisis sparks political row in Paris as insect ‘sc... by Cockbrand on Saturday September 30, 2023 @06:51AM (#37714237)
Unfortunately not, they're considered "the world's deadliest animal"

https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/stories/2019/world-deadlies...

[Edit: posted before your edit. Bonus points for the "suckers" pun :) ]

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Re:Bedbug crisis sparks political row in Paris as insect ‘sc... by throwaway290 on Saturday September 30, 2023 @07:47AM (#37714553)
Yeah I realized after posting that "do mosquitoes transmit?" is a silly question:)
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Re:Bedbug crisis sparks political row in Paris as insect ‘sc... by idontknoworcare on Saturday September 30, 2023 @06:54AM (#37714249)
"Decrease the ability to transmit infection diseases"

Why dont they say stop and not decrease ?

So they can transmit pathogens ?

How did this paper get published

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Re:Bedbug crisis sparks political row in Paris as insect ‘sc... by bratwurst3000 on Saturday September 30, 2023 @07:03AM (#37714304)
Thats science slang . Science is rarely absolute.
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