Heating suitcases may cut the spread of bed bugs

Monday, August 1, 2016 - 10:41 in Health & Medicine

New research indicates that brief heat treatment is a promising way to decrease the spread of bed bugs being transported on the outer surface of luggage. When soft-sided suitcases with male bed bugs on the outside were exposed to an air temperature of 70-75oC, it took only six minutes to kill all of the bed […]

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