It is great for
human bug bites, too!
Not exact matches
The common bed
bug (Cimex lectularius) exclusively feeds on
human blood and can cause itchy
bites.
Although doctors officially have recorded only seven cases of new
human infections in North America, a new study found that five of 13 kissing
bugs collected from California and Arizona had
bitten a
human host — and many of the
bugs they collected were infected with Chagas.
In the December 2014 issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases the scientists who made this discovery also reported that about 40 percent of all the
bugs were infected with T. cruzi and three of the
humans had been
bitten by infected
bugs.
Bed
bugs will take the easier meal to get to so since
humans don't have fur to bury through like most pets, bedbugs will usually
bite a
human over a pet.