On the topic of sleep
I was reading an article on the livescience.com website earlier today about how the New York City bedbugs that have been plaguing the hotels there are becoming resistant to the insecticide that is used to kill them! The article was continuing to talk about how bed bugs live in the mattresses or bed frames of beds, and that they feed on people, which results in large painful welts. The article also was talking about how they harbor diseases such as HIV and hepatitis B but that there is no evidence yet that they transmit those diseases. I find it very hard to believe that if they harbor these diseases that they don’t also transmit them! This is a very scary thought to me - the possibility that you might pick up such a dangerous disease by sleeping in a hotel bed? I’m not thinking about sleeping in a NYC hotel anytime soon, thank you very much!