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Skitto · 01-16-2011, 02:23 AM

Turns out that bedbugs sorta live all over now, or so I've heard, and that they don't carry disease so it shouldn't be such a big deal after all. So what I thought was can a bug so small, contract a virus from one of it's hosts and transmit it to another and another?

That's the fear with mosquitoes in West Africa, and it doesn't really apply directly to bedbugs. Bedbugs can't fly, and so whatever disease it gets in it's system won't go very far on its own, unlike mosquitoes.

So the question I have is this:

What probability do you think is the probability of these bugs getting a bug in their system and passing it on to humanity?

01-16-2011, 02:23 AM	#1 (permalink)
Skitto Crazy Location: Westernmost Continental U.S.	Bedbugs: the Benign Menace Turns out that bedbugs sorta live all over now, or so I've heard, and that they don't carry disease so it shouldn't be such a big deal after all. So what I thought was can a bug so small, contract a virus from one of it's hosts and transmit it to another and another? That's the fear with mosquitoes in West Africa, and it doesn't really apply directly to bedbugs. Bedbugs can't fly, and so whatever disease it gets in it's system won't go very far on its own, unlike mosquitoes. So the question I have is this: What probability do you think is the probability of these bugs getting a bug in their system and passing it on to humanity? __________________ Yeah, well, you're just that awesome, I guess. It's not like I guessed so anyways.