I have blogged before about bedbugs.
The nuisance factor is unquestionable.
Have a nice weekend.
Here is a new twist on them. Researchers in Vancouver isolated MRSA from bedbugs. The bedbugs were from indigent, hospitalized, patients. It is not clear if the MRSA was on the bedbugs or in the bedbugs or if they transmitted MRSA to the patients (or, conversely, the patients to the bedbugs).
Somehow, I do not think that this heralds the next modern plague. I don't see bedbugs as potent vectors, such as the human body louse, which transmits typhus.
Theoretically, bedbugs could transmit MRSA to humans. This would result in colonization, and possibly, consequent infection (skin infections, pneumonias).
To date, however, scant evidence exists supporting bedbugs as vectors of MRSA or bloodborne pathogens.
