A review of bed bugs (a.k.a Cimex lectularius) in today's Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) notes that these pests don’t transmit disease. Entomologist Jerome Goddard of Mississippi State and allergist Richard deShazo of the University of Mississippi, found that bed bugs don't transmit HIV or hepatitis B as it was feared they might.
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Source: Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
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