Ewww! 'Bedbugs' Carry AIDS, Hepatitis. Spread in US by illegal aliens

[Greg B]

http://rense.com/general51/bbes.htm

Bedbugs Carrying HIV, Hep
Etc Coming Into US Via Illegals
From Patricia Doyle, PhD
[email protected]
4-16-4

Hello Jeff - This is an important issue because bedbugs carry diseases, such as Hepatitis B and HIV. Of course, experts claim that there is NO EVIDENCE these diseases are spread to humans via bedbugs. In my opinion, if a bedbug can carry the diseases above and others, then bite humans, I am sure there is a chance, a good chance of infection.

Also, it is my opinion that bed bugs are entering the US and other industrialized countries via legal and illegal immigrants' luggage. I found it odd that this was not mentioned in the article below. I think that increased immigration into the US, UK and European Union of immigrants, especially illegals, is the reason we are seeing a reemergence of bed bugs. Of course, this is not a politically correct assumption to present.

Patricia Doyle

Bed Bugs Find Warm Reception On Their Return To The West

The Scotsman Newspaper 4-14-4

Bed bugs are staging a big come-back in developed countries around the world, including Britain, it was claimed yesterday.

Once common, the blood sucking insects were virtually driven out of bedrooms by the 1980s. But since 1995 there has been an unexpected increase in reports of bed bug infestation in Britain, the United States, and other developed countries. Experts say one theory is that the creatures may be developing resistance to pesticides.

The bed bug's return is revealed this month by the Institute of Biology.

Clive Boase, of the Haverhill-based company Pest Management Consultancy, wrote in the Institute magazine Biologist: "Data from some sources indicate that, since the mid-1990s, the numbers of reported infestations has almost doubled annually, although numbers are nowhere near those of pre-war levels."

Bed bugs, which measure up to 5 mm across, thrive in warm surroundings, making their homes around mattress seams, in bed frames, behind headboards or skirting boards, and within furniture and electrical fittings. Even when deprived of blood, individual bugs can survive a year or more, allowing infestations to persist in empty properties or stored furniture.

In heated premises with an adequate food supply, a small starting population of bed bugs can develop into several thousand within a year.

Various theories have been put forward to explain the return of bed bugs in countries which had previously banished them, said Mr Boase. It had been suggested that previously bed bugs had suffered "collateral damage" caused by broad-spectrum insecticide sprays used against other pests such as cockroaches and ants. Now, specific targeting of pests using bait products was allowing the bugs to "escape". However, Mr Boase said it was unlikely that kitchen-focused spray treatments would have ever held bed bugs in check.

An alternative theory was that the bugs were becoming resistant to pesticides. Recently, a study from East Africa had shown an association between the use of pesticide-treated mosquito nets and the growth of resistance in bed bugs. The pesticide involved, a pyrethroid, was a type widely used in bed bug sprays in developed countries.

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/health.cfm?id=419522004

-- ProMED-mail

The original article by Clive Boase was published in the Biologist (see refs below), a publication of the British Institute of Biology. The British media picked up the story and it was aired on the BBC News on 14 Apr 2004, and summaries printed on the same day in several newspapers including The Times and The Independent as well as in the The Scotsman, who incidentally misspelt throughout their report Mr Boase's name as Bose.

The 2 common bedbug species that feed on humans are _Cimex lectularius_, widely distributed in tropical and non-tropical countries, and _Cimex hemipterus_, commonly called the tropical bedbug, is essentially a species of Old and New World tropics, although it is found in warm areas of some non-tropical countries such as Florida in the USA.

It is true that since about 1995 bedbugs seem to have increased not just in the UK, but elsewhere in Europe and in the USA.

Several decades ago during slum clearance in inner cities in the UK, people who were rehoused in newly built homes were again soon pestered by bedbugs, because they took them with them in their beds, mattresses, and other furniture, and to a lesser extent in hand-baggage such as suitcases.

Although hepatitis B surface antigen can exist for about 6 weeks in bedbugs and be passed out with the feces, thereby seemingly posing the danger that it may be scratched into skin lesions, there is no evidence that such transmission is important, or even occurs. Similarly HIV can survive on bedbug mouthparts for about an hour, but there is no evidence that HIV is transmitted by the bugs. Nevertheless, repeated feeding by large numbers of bedbugs have been reported as causing anemia in infants, while their persistent biting can cause sleepless nights, and in some people also severe allergic reactions. Bedbugs also feed on pigs and poultry; _C. lectularius_ sometimes becomes a pest of commercial poultry in North America and Europe, causing anemia in the birds

Bedbugs have developed resistance to several insecticides including, as reported in the press releases in some areas, to pyrethroid insecticides. For example, in Tanzania, there have been reports of resistance to alphacypermethrin and permethrin, insecticides commonly used for impregnating bed nets for control of anopheline vectors of malaria.

References:

Boase, C.J. (2001) Bedbugs - back from the brink. _Pesticide Outlook_, 12, (4) 159-162.

Boase, C.J. (2004) Bed-bugs - reclaiming our cities. _Biologist_ 54 (1) 1-4.

Myamba, J., Maxwell, C.A. and Curtis, C.F. (2002) Pyrethroid resistance in tropical bedbugs (_Cimex hemipterus_) associated with use of treated bednets. _Medical and Veterinary Entomology_, 16, 448-451 -- Mod.MS

[see also:1996 ---- Mechanical transmission by mosquitoes (10) 19960417.0736] ..................ms/pg/jw

Patricia A. Doyle, PhD Please visit my "Emerging Diseases" message board at: http://www.clickitnews.com/ubbthread...ergingdiseases Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa Go with God and in Good Health

[Jdoughs]

.......and dont let the bedbugs bite

[llabtaem]

Real credible Doctor sporting that classy ass Hotmail email address!

[123Jason]

Originally posted by llabtaem
Real credible Doctor sporting that classy ass Hotmail email address!

NO SHIT!

you know what...WTF...good thing you wasted my fucking time to click on this thread.

what the hell is her phd in anyway? and who the fuck starts an article out with "well...EXPERTS think this...but IMO..."

really, i'm lost for any words other than WTF?!?!

glad you wasted my time with this post

[BRISK]

Quoting anything from Rense.com is your first mistake

[JFK]

whats wrong with a hotmail address?

[just a punk]

Too funny! HIV (the virus called AIDS in your topic) CAN NOT be carried over drugs or any other solid things. HIV virus is VERY unstable to outer environment and can live in liquids only! As about other viruses such as Hepatitis B etc, so they are really stable ones, and they could be carried in drugs.