TIL: Some facts about bedbugs

There was a great review on bedbugs that came out of the New England Journal of Medicine1.

1. Bed bugs can survive on a human host for 4-5 months

2. Even without a human host, they survive for up to 70 days...

3. Most of them are resistant to permethrin now, so the best source control is vacuuming/steaming

1. Parola, Philippe, and Arezki Izri. "Bedbugs." New England Journal of Medicine 382.23 (2020): 2230-2237.

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