Comments on: Ebola? EBOLA?!? Or, What’s Wrong With America Today http://bedbugger.com/2007/09/21/ebola-ebola-or-whats-wrong-with-america-today/ bed bug news, information, activism, and support Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:09:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: nobugsonme http://bedbugger.com/2007/09/21/ebola-ebola-or-whats-wrong-with-america-today/#comment-10118 nobugsonme Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:18:55 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/09/21/ebola-ebola-or-whats-wrong-with-america-today/#comment-10118 More on the fake female parts <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070925-bat-bugs.html" rel="nofollow">here.</a> More on the fake female parts here.

]]> By: nobugsonme http://bedbugger.com/2007/09/21/ebola-ebola-or-whats-wrong-with-america-today/#comment-6116 nobugsonme Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:35:47 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/09/21/ebola-ebola-or-whats-wrong-with-america-today/#comment-6116 Thanks vacationer. Note to self: avoid African caves. Thanks vacationer.

Note to self: avoid African caves.

]]> By: vacationer http://bedbugger.com/2007/09/21/ebola-ebola-or-whats-wrong-with-america-today/#comment-6115 vacationer Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:29:28 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/09/21/ebola-ebola-or-whats-wrong-with-america-today/#comment-6115 I note that a fair percentage of people who contract some kinds of blood-borne diseases (such as hepatitis C, which usually produces no immediate symptoms to warn the victim that s/he is infected) are NEVER able to determine exactly how or when they got infected. So, if in future someone were to contract a blood-borne disease from a bedbug, they (and we) might well never know. Transmission might have to occur quite a number of times before there is a situation so unambiguous that we would know it happened. Instances of previously unverified methods of getting hep C continue to appear in medical journals. Death to bedbugs (why don't THEY get sick?)! -v. I note that a fair percentage of people who contract some kinds of blood-borne diseases (such as hepatitis C, which usually produces no immediate symptoms to warn the victim that s/he is infected) are NEVER able to determine exactly how or when they got infected.

So, if in future someone were to contract a blood-borne disease from a bedbug, they (and we) might well never know. Transmission might have to occur quite a number of times before there is a situation so unambiguous that we would know it happened. Instances of previously unverified methods of getting hep C continue to appear in medical journals.

Death to bedbugs (why don’t THEY get sick?)!
-v.

]]> By: Anonymous http://bedbugger.com/2007/09/21/ebola-ebola-or-whats-wrong-with-america-today/#comment-6109 Anonymous Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:09:17 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/09/21/ebola-ebola-or-whats-wrong-with-america-today/#comment-6109 Hello Nobugs, I agree 100%. Just because it has not happened does not mean that it is impossible. I am a scientist by nature and as such I know that living things adapt and evolve. We would be naive to think that bed bugs will never transmit disease. Sean. Hello Nobugs,

I agree 100%. Just because it has not happened does not mean that it is impossible.

I am a scientist by nature and as such I know that living things adapt and evolve. We would be naive to think that bed bugs will never transmit disease.

Sean.

]]> By: nobugsonme http://bedbugger.com/2007/09/21/ebola-ebola-or-whats-wrong-with-america-today/#comment-6106 nobugsonme Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:11:16 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/09/21/ebola-ebola-or-whats-wrong-with-america-today/#comment-6106 Jammin, In my opinion, anyone with a bat problem indoors (or frankly, with a bird, mouse, rat or other pest issue) should have the PCO inspect carefully for evidence of bed bugs/bird bugs/bat bugs in the vicinity of the other pest being eradicated. Doug, Yes--it does sound like the bats biting the researchers in the cave were the real concern, at this time anyway. Still, though, would you like to be bitten by a bug that you knew bit bats with Ebola? (I wonder how this bat bug population is being fed, come to think of it. The usual lab method is that the bed bugs feed on the research team.) Sean, Quite true. However, the incidence of blood-borne pathogens, and the ability to study their transmission, are much improved since bed bugs were mostly eradicated from the developed world in the late 1940s. And in the last decade, we saw mosquitoes become very dangerous --sometimes--in the US. The possibility of bed bugs (etc.) transmitting pathogens in future does seem to be there. Jammin,
In my opinion, anyone with a bat problem indoors (or frankly, with a bird, mouse, rat or other pest issue) should have the PCO inspect carefully for evidence of bed bugs/bird bugs/bat bugs in the vicinity of the other pest being eradicated.

Doug,
Yes–it does sound like the bats biting the researchers in the cave were the real concern, at this time anyway. Still, though, would you like to be bitten by a bug that you knew bit bats with Ebola? (I wonder how this bat bug population is being fed, come to think of it. The usual lab method is that the bed bugs feed on the research team.)

Sean,
Quite true. However, the incidence of blood-borne pathogens, and the ability to study their transmission, are much improved since bed bugs were mostly eradicated from the developed world in the late 1940s. And in the last decade, we saw mosquitoes become very dangerous –sometimes–in the US. The possibility of bed bugs (etc.) transmitting pathogens in future does seem to be there.

]]> By: Anonymous http://bedbugger.com/2007/09/21/ebola-ebola-or-whats-wrong-with-america-today/#comment-6101 Anonymous Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:58:41 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/09/21/ebola-ebola-or-whats-wrong-with-america-today/#comment-6101 Hello, I think that you may have confused what the article was saying. The bats carry Ebola, not the bugs. Yes it is VERY possible for bed / bat /bird bugs to harbour pathogens but there is no evidence to suggest that they can transmit them from host to host. Sincerely, Sean. Hello,

I think that you may have confused what the article was saying. The bats carry Ebola, not the bugs.

Yes it is VERY possible for bed / bat /bird bugs to harbour pathogens but there is no evidence to suggest that they can transmit them from host to host.

Sincerely,

Sean.

]]> By: Anonymous http://bedbugger.com/2007/09/21/ebola-ebola-or-whats-wrong-with-america-today/#comment-6085 Anonymous Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:11:30 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/09/21/ebola-ebola-or-whats-wrong-with-america-today/#comment-6085 Bed bugs are also hosts for a long list of human diseases. I am curious if the British researchers were wearing the suits and respirators because of possible Ebola transmission or due to other environmental hazards associated with the bats. Bat droppings also are considered hazardous due to bacteria & mold. People that clean up dwellings after the bats are excluded typically wear suits with respirators. It would be interesting to contact Dr. Reinhardt and ask if there is any evidence that bat bugs transmit the Ebola virus. Doug Summers MS Bed bugs are also hosts for a long list of human diseases.

I am curious if the British researchers were wearing the suits and respirators because of possible Ebola transmission or due to other environmental hazards associated with the bats.

Bat droppings also are considered hazardous due to bacteria & mold. People that clean up dwellings after the bats are excluded typically wear suits with respirators.

It would be interesting to contact Dr. Reinhardt and ask if there is any evidence that bat bugs transmit the Ebola virus.

Doug Summers MS

]]> By: nyjammin http://bedbugger.com/2007/09/21/ebola-ebola-or-whats-wrong-with-america-today/#comment-6080 nyjammin Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:49:35 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/09/21/ebola-ebola-or-whats-wrong-with-america-today/#comment-6080 I clicked on the FoxNews.com Science Section above and to the right on that page is news in video form about "Bat Invasion, College freshman fights off bats at dorm". So, does this mean that these freshman will soon get batbugs, bedbugs or whatever you wanna call these things that suck your blood for survivial while you are sleeping? We all know that there have been people on the forums who have had batbugs. According to one of the students interviewed at TSU, the bats were located in the ceiling. Now I know that just because there are bats, doesn't mean that there are bugs w/them. But, the possibility does exist. I clicked on the FoxNews.com Science Section above and to the right on that page is news in video form about “Bat Invasion, College freshman fights off bats at dorm”. So, does this mean that these freshman will soon get batbugs, bedbugs or whatever you wanna call these things that suck your blood for survivial while you are sleeping? We all know that there have been people on the forums who have had batbugs. According to one of the students interviewed at TSU, the bats were located in the ceiling. Now I know that just because there are bats, doesn’t mean that there are bugs w/them. But, the possibility does exist.

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