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Nearly eradicated in the United States 50 years ago, resistant strains of "super" bedbugs are infesting mattresses at an alarming rate. In what's being touted as the biggest mystery in entomology, all 50 states are reporting outbreaks of the blood-sucking nocturnal critters.

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  • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)Aidenag
    Aidenag
    April 8, 2007, 2:55 a.m.

    Man my skin is crawling just thinking about this..

    • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)kh77
      kh77
      April 8, 2007, 9:05 a.m.

      I thought this was an april fools joke, till I saw the date... Nothing to laugh about really.

      • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)JohnChasWebb
        JohnChasWebb
        April 8, 2007, 7:15 p.m.

        Re: Mysterious outbreak of bedbugs in all 50 states

        Bed bugs are attracted by warmth and the presence of carbon dioxide (A colorless, odorless, poisonous gas, produced by incomplete burning of carbon-based fuels, including gasoline,........) It seems that if carbon dioxide levels are rising then bed bugs are having a mass revival!

        Carbon dioxide It is often referred to by its formula CO2.

        The bugs simply find your bed and then feast upon your blood in a context where you are the most vulnerable (sleeping). I suspect rising levels of CO2 as a contributing cause of the bedbug renaissance.

        • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)riverdalian
          riverdalian
          April 8, 2007, 9:34 p.m.

          I was itching as I was reading that article....yuck!

          • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)NelsonR
            NelsonR
            April 8, 2007, 9:47 p.m.

            Another blight on humanity especially when one of these buggers looked at me with a Cheney grin. I knew I was in deep dodo when the grin turned into a smile.

            • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)evelyna
              evelyna
              April 8, 2007, 11:48 p.m.

              They are coming in with illegals. Also since no one in the gov. monitors dog food posions I am sure no one cares about what is sneaking over the borders.

              Profit must be protected at all costs.

              GWB

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