Sleep is one of the important aspects of health. Everyone aims to get a peaceful sleep at night. For that, they ensure proper sleeping conditions, like a clean bed without bed bugs. But, a doctor is sleeping in a bed full of these critters, not out of compulsion and the reason will leave you bewildered. The expert has been doing this all in the name of research. Shocking, right? But why the research?
Pest expert, Dr Richard Naylor who has been studying bed bugs for the past two decades has a lab that produces these bugs and researches them. As a part of his job, he has to sleep in a bed with dozens of blood-sucking pests to help pest management companies understand bed bugs.
As per Daily Star, Dr Richard Naylor shared that bed bugs are ‘inherently difficult to study.’ He added that people want to get rid of them immediately as soon as they get discovered, leaving the researchers with no time to conduct a meaningful ‘field trial.’ The expert and his wife, Alexia, run the Cimex Store and The Bed Bug Foundation CIC. They have set up test bedrooms to simulate infestations and conduct experiments in a controlled setting. These test bedrooms resemble normal bedrooms with double beds, bedside tables, a rug and a window with a blind.
Over the last five years, they have used this particular setup for testing traps, monitors, barrier tapes, devices and insecticides. Every week or so, the bugs get access to the human host- Dr Richard Naylor as food. The team then films the actions of the critters at night to learn about their behaviour and patterns and test out various traps.
So far, researchers found that the bed bug Cimex Hemipterus found near the equator is one of the most dangerous kinds on which even medicines have shown no effect. Experts fear that these tropical bugs have been found in France. They also found that these can spread dangerous diseases among humans.
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