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The only surefire way to walk away from bed bugs is naked. They have a tendency to tag along in the folds of clothing. I got EXTREMELY lucky once and tracked a bed bug home from I-don't-know-where. This was before I knew about bedbugs (in fact, it's the incidence that caused me to learn about them). It bit me for a few days and I didn't know what was going on. Then, one night, I saw it crawling in the middle of the night while I was up on my computer and I killed it. I didn't recognize it at the time, so I looked up pictures of bugs on the internet to identify it and read, with horror, all about bedbugs. It must have been a single male bedbug that came from elsewhere, because it was the only bedbug that ever showed up in my room - thank goodness!
That incidence made me much more prepared - but also much more worried - when I found myself in a London hotel room with bedbugs.
Those evil creatures can last up to SIX MONTHS without feeding, so even starving them by temporarily living elsewhere isn't an option.
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