Mississippi Business Journal » bedbugs http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:02:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 New research shows bed bugs are not disease spreaders http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/07/01/new-research-shows-bed-bugs-are-not-disease-spreaders/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-research-shows-bed-bugs-are-not-disease-spreaders http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/07/01/new-research-shows-bed-bugs-are-not-disease-spreaders/#comments Sun, 01 Jul 2012 06:01:24 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=59135 The research of two Mississippi medical professionals — Dr. Richard deShazo and Dr. Jerome Goddard — brought the nation some welcome news in 2009: Bed bugs leave nasty bites that are hard to treat but no evidence exists to indicate they spread disease. Their article appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association and [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/07/01/new-research-shows-bed-bugs-are-not-disease-spreaders/feed/ 2 Chief health official calls bed bugs major threat to Mississippi hotels http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/07/01/chief-health-official-calls-bed-bugs-major-threat-to-mississippi-hotels/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chief-health-official-calls-bed-bugs-major-threat-to-mississippi-hotels http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/07/01/chief-health-official-calls-bed-bugs-major-threat-to-mississippi-hotels/#comments Sun, 01 Jul 2012 06:01:04 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=59132 Cimex lectularis — aka the bed bug — followed man out of the caves millenniums ago and has been biting the hand that feeds it ever since. And, increasingly, guests of Mississippi hotels are enduring those bites, Dr. Jeffrey Brown says. As state entomologist and director of the Mississippi Department of Health’s Environmental Services Bureau, [...]

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