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    Bed bugs' developing thick skins to beat insecticides...

    Bed bugs' thick skins beat insecticide
    Wed, 13 Apr 2016 - Bed bugs might be developing thicker "skins" to help them survive exposure to common insecticides.
    Human population growth and international travel have helped the bug become a source of irritation in hotel rooms around the world. Insecticides are the most common way to kill them, but they have rapidly developed resistance. Now, an Australian team writing in Plos One journal thinks it has found one of the reasons why. Killing resistant strains of the bug may require concentrations 1,000 times larger than those needed to eliminate non-resistant creatures. Infestations have spread to homes and offices and the bugs are extremely hard to get rid of once they gain a foothold.

    They can survive for up to a year without feeding and a single fertilised female can infest a whole building. While they were a common part of life in the 1940s and 50s, the introduction of DDT and other powerful insecticides initially restricted their populations. But there was a resurgence as the bugs quickly developed resistance to DDT and subsequent classes of chemicals deployed to kill them. Like all insects, bed bugs are covered by an exoskeleton called a cuticle.


    Using scanning electron microscopy, David Lilly from the University of Sydney and colleagues compared the thickness of cuticles taken from bed bugs that were resistant to insecticides with cuticles from those that were more easily killed by insecticides. The results showed that the thicker the cuticle, the more likely the bugs were to be resistant to insecticides. "One way bed bugs beat insecticides is by developing a thicker 'skin'," said co-author Mr Lilly, a PhD candidate.

    The researchers say the results could explain why bed bug infestations are so difficult to control and could assist the search for more effective strategies. "If we understand the biological mechanisms bed bugs use to beat insecticides, we may be able to spot a chink in their armour," said David Lilly. However, there may be other ways that the organisms beat widely used bug sprays. Another team of scientists in the US thinks that bugs there may be able to produce large quantities of enzymes that break down toxic chemicals, including insecticides.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36037823

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    Already pretty well proven here. They are sealing up houses and heating them to 150° for 8 hours to clear infestations here.
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    Diatomaceous earth. It's not dirt -- it's a type of ground-up fossil with razor sharp edges that cut the soft areas on crawling insect bodies. It's a desiccant -- it causes them to shrivel and dry up. It's also natural and (believe it or not) edible. It can be found in tractor/farm-supply-type stores (buy only food grade, the other stuff is for pools) and sprinkle it on carpets, bedding, etc., then vacuum out.

    Heat-treating as Crepitus mentions is good for mattresses and furniture where the DE can't reach.

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    Granny says its from alla dem illegal immigrants...

    Mutant 'Super Lice' Outbreak Has Now Spread to Nearly Every State
    August 4, 2016 - Back to school season is upon us, which means it’s time for new school supplies, first day of school pictures, and that dreaded four-letter word: lice. But this year, it’s not just exposure to regular lice that parents have to worry about: There’s now a treatment resistant “super lice” that’s spreading across the United States.
    A whopping 42 out of 48 states tested are overrun by this so-called super lice, according to a study published in the Journal of Medical Entomology. In these 42 states, according to NBC’s Today show, 100 percent of the lice tested were resistant to over-the-counter treatments. In six other states - New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Oregon, New Mexico, and North Dakota - some, but not all, the lice tested were resistant to over-the-counter treatments. Alaska and West Virginia were not part of the study. The problem, according to the Today show, is that lice have mutated, making it more difficult for the chemicals in over-the-counter treatments to lock on to the lice and eliminate it.


    Last August, a study made waves when it found that at least 25 states had developed treatment resistant lice. Kyong Sup Yoon, Ph.D., who worked on that study and this latest one, suggests that the only way to effectively treat these lice are with different chemicals, ones that are typically available through a prescription. “If you use a chemical over and over, these little creatures will eventually develop resistance,” Yoon said last year. “So we have to think before we use a treatment. The good news is head lice don’t carry disease. They’re more a nuisance than anything else.”

    Dr. Robin Gehris, the chief of pediatric dermatology at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburg, told Today that if your child has head lice, it is more likely resistance lice than not. Gheris recommends that parents try to get rid of the infection by using over-the-counter treatment twice. “Treat the entire head and leave it on for a few hours and then repeat a week later,” she told Today. “If you still see things moving after the second treatment it’s time to call the doctor.”


    There are countless home remedies to treat lice, including putting mayonnaise, olive oil, and lotion on the scalp, but Dr. Gehris cannot guarantee their effectiveness. To parents gearing up to send their kids back to school, keep the suggested plan of action in mind: use over the counter treatment twice, and if the problem persists, pay a visit to your doctor for a prescription treatment.

    https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/mutant-...155545532.html

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    Lice are becoming resistant to non-prescription remedies...

    Lice no longer stopped by common drugstore remedies
    September 14, 2016 - Many common over-the-counter lice remedies are no longer effective at stopping these critters from taking up residence on kids’ heads, according to a study that has some doctors recommending prescription remedies instead.
    Two non-prescription options in particular that parents often buy to stop lice – permethrin (Nix) and synergized pyrethrins (Rid) – can no longer keep the bugs away, said Dr. William Ryan, one of the study authors. “For decades they have been widely and easily available and have been used over and over, and it is inevitable that resistance will emerge when that happens,” said Ryan, former head of development at Sklice, a maker of prescription lice lotion. “Even worse, when people see they don't work, they keep re-treating, so that all the repeated use just makes the head lice increasingly resistant,” Ryan added by email. For the current study, Ryan and colleagues examined data from previously completed research on lice remedies available in the U.S. through October 2015.

    Back in the 1980s and 1990s, medicines like Nix and Rid were usually effective after just one treatment, the research review found. Some studies found these remedies 100 percent effective as recently as 1998. But after that, studies often found these treatments cleared up lice with a single use less than half of the time. One study in 2009 found they worked in a single use just 26 percent of the time, or about as effective as a placebo, Ryan said. Home remedies such as petroleum jelly, mayonnaise and essential oils, have not been demonstrated as safe or effective, the research review also found.

    At the same time, several prescription products were effective with a single application even without the tedious process of combing out nits by hand, the analysis found. These included malathion, spinosad and topical ivermectin. Another prescription remedy, benzyl alcohol, worked without nit combing with two applications. Although combing is appropriate to remove dead lice and eggs, rigorous combing may only be something parents need to do for cosmetic reasons, the authors conclude. One limitation of the study is that some of the over-the-counter remedies are much older, which may have allowed more time for lice to develop resistance to the products.

    While prescription options may be better, they’re also much more expensive, noted Dr. Barbara Frankowski, a pediatrics researcher at the University of Vermont Children’s Hospital in Burlington who wasn’t involved in the study. “They are all VERY expensive – some well over $100 for a single treatment – and certain insurance companies will only cover certain products, often with an extremely high co-pay,” Frankowski said by email. “If you don't have insurance that covers prescriptions, and you are not rich, you are out of luck!” It may be reasonable for parents to try over-the-counter products first, as long as they are certain their kids have lice and they use it at least twice at 7 to 10 day intervals, said Dr. Bernard Cohen, a pediatrics and dermatology researcher at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore who wasn’t involved in the study. “Consider the prescription products if this does not work in a timely fashion,” Cohen said by email.

    It’s also important to check the whole family for lice when one person gets infested, Cohen added. “Close physical contact is the most common way of acquiring lice, since they do not fly or jump,” Cohen said. “I still think that one of the most common problems is not identifying close contacts who are infested and treating them appropriately,” he said. “After treatment, I recommend not sharing combs, brushes, or hats with anyone else and avoiding contact with those who might be sources who have not been treated,” Cohen added.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/lice-no-l...95.html?ref=gs

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    Screwworms makin' a comeback...

    Flesh-eating Worms have Appeared in Florida
    December 29, 2016 | After nearly 35 years of being eradicated in the U.S., a destructive, flesh-eating worm has reappeared within our borders — in the state of Florida, to be exact, where officials believe it may be quietly and unassumingly entering the country through Cuba.
    Known as the screwworm, the worm, which does exactly as its name suggests, seems to find its way into humans through open flesh wounds. Once there, it begins screwing through flesh, eating whatever it can along the way. The Atlantic reports that 1982 was the year the screwworm is believed to have been vanquished from the U.S. An expensive program that involved blasting sterile male screwworms into wild populations effectively culled them, and the war on flesh-eating worms was won.


    Except that it wasn’t, and the Florida Keys are ground zero for the return of these deadly worms. Deer living in a wildlife refuge have reportedly shown signs of infection, and officials are scrambling to come up with a new plan to get rid of them before they spread to other states. “The screwworm is a potentially devastating animal disease that sends shivers down every rancher’s spine,” Florida Agricultural Commissioner Adam H. Putnam said in a recent statement. “It’s been more than five decades since the screwworm last infested Florida, and I’ve grown up hearing the horror stories from the last occurrence.”


    The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has also confirmed the reemergence of the screwworm, warning that at least three deer living within the wildlife refuge in Big Pine Key have tested positive for the worms, as have a few pets living in the area. “This foreign animal disease poses a grave threat to wildlife, livestock, and domestic pets in Florida,” Putnam added. “Though rare, it can even infect humans. We’ve eradicated this from Florida before, and we’ll do it again. We will work with our partners on the federal, state, and local level to protect our residents, animals, and wildlife by eliminating the screwworm from Florida.”

    Are GMO mosquitoes the answer to flesh-eating worms? Hardly

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    Deadly tick gets loose...

    Officials announcing outbreak of deadly disease spread by ticks in Japan bring an insect to press conference... and it ESCAPES
    8 September 2017 | A news conference descended into chaos after a deadly insect disappeared; Meeting had been called to raise awareness about Thrombocytopenia syndrome; The Japanese governor was left red-faced and forced to issue a public apology
    A Japanese news conference which aimed to raise awareness of a tick-borne disease ended in disaster when a live tick disappeared. The governor of Miyazaki prefectural was left red-faced when he was forced to apologise on Tuesday, a day after the debacle. Monday's conference had been organised by the Miyazaki prefectural government to raise awareness about the tick-borne disease Thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS), after a number of residents in the district had fallen ill with it.


    Moments before the deadly tick disappears: An official attempts to pick up the live insect with a pair of tweezers

    SFTS can be deadly, with symptoms including fever, a reduction in the cells that clot blood to prevent people from bleeding out, nausea and vomiting, and a decline in white blood cells which help fight off infection in the body. Despite prefectural government officials carrying out a desperate search for the insect - even roping in reporters to help them - the little critter could not be found. The room was later sprayed with insecticide, according to officials. 'We should have been more careful about safety management as the prefecture is in a position to alert its people,' said Miyazaki governor Shunji Kono. A live tick and a dead one had been brought along to the event for the press to photograph but when an official attempted to pick up the live one with tweezers it disappeared.


    One live and one dead tick were brought into the press conference so the media could take photographs and help raise awareness about Thrombocytopenia syndrome

    Last month, the Ehime prefectural government announced the death of a farmer in his 60s from the city of Shikokuchuo after he fell ill with spotted fever as a result of a tick bite. SFTS is a relatively new infectious disease which has so far been found in China, Korea and Japan. Symptoms usually develop within two weeks of the initial infection. According to Japanese media, the first reported case of SFTS contracted from a tick bite was in 2013, but the syndrome was first discovered in China in 2009. The virus is said to have high fatality rates of up to 30 per cent and people aged over 50 are more at risk. Japan's health ministry has previously issued a warning for people in contact with animals in poor physical condition to be careful.

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    I was crazy once, they put me in a home, that is when the worms came, the worms drive me crazy, i was crazy once.....
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    Cases of Tick-Borne Meat Allergy May Be on the Rise...


    Cases of Tick-Borne Meat Allergy May Be on the Rise
    August 01, 2018 - As Americans head outdoors for barbeques or hiking in the woods, danger might be lurking in the grass. The bite of the lone star tick, which lives in many eastern U.S. states, has been known to cause an allergic reaction to red meat. New research suggests that meat allergy may be on the rise.
    Mammalian meat allergy, also known as the alpha-gal allergy, refers to an allergic reaction caused by a complex sugar found in many mammalian cell membranes. The galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose sugar isn’t found in primates (including humans), but is common to red meats such as pork and beef. Symptoms of meat allergy can include hives, stomach trouble, and a sudden drop in blood pressure. It can lead to anaphylaxis, a severe and potentially life-threatening allergic reaction. New research by Dr. Jay Lieberman at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center finds one-third of anaphylaxis cases in a recent 10-year period were caused by this arachnid-induced allergy.


    Lieberman and his co-authors were interested in assessing the breakdown of various causes of anaphylaxis, including the alpha-gal (red meat) allergy. Anaphylaxis is usually defined as a reaction involving at least two different organ systems. “For example, if you have full body hives and you vomit,” Lieberman said, “that can be anaphylaxis, as long as you know that it’s not associated with an infection or virus.” The researchers evaluated 218 cases of anaphylaxis in patients ranging from as young as 9 years old to 78-year-old retirees who visited their university-affiliated Tennessee clinic over a 10-year period.



    A lone star tick is displayed on a monitor in a lab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, in Raleigh, North Carolina




    By reviewing the patients’ medical records, the doctors could identify the cause of the allergic reactions with high certainty in 85 of the cases and relative certainty in an additional 57 cases. Researchers found that of the 85 highly certain cases, 28 -- or about one-third -- were caused by the tick-bite-induced alpha-gal allergy, more than any other source including other food allergies like peanuts or shellfish. In the 57 cases where the researchers were less certain of the cause of the allergic reaction, they found more than a quarter of the cases were most likely caused by alpha-gal. Taken together, the meat allergy was the most commonly identified source of anaphylaxis in those 142 cases.


    Lieberman told VOA not every tick bite leads to an immune system reaction and not everyone with antibodies caused by the tick bite ends up with this meat allergy. “Clearly there are many people who get bitten by ticks that probably never develop the allergy to alpha-gal." However, experts say that knowledge of the tick-borne allergy since its formal recognition in the early 2000s, as well as an antibody blood test that helps identify it, has helped spread awareness about it. This comes as the range of the lone star tick is also spreading, north and west from the eastern United States and Mexico.


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    Mutant 'Super Lice' Outbreak Has Now Spread to Nearly Every State
    August 4, 2016 - Back to school season is upon us, which means it’s time for new school supplies, first day of school pictures, and that dreaded four-letter word: lice. But this year, it’s not just exposure to regular lice that parents have to worry about: There’s now a treatment resistant “super lice” that’s spreading across the United States.
    Time to call the doctor?

    It's the barber that's needed.

    No hair = no lice.

    And wash all the clothes and sheets and etc.
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