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Why Did a Woman Let Bed Bugs Bite Her Over 85,000 Times?
Some people will go to great lengths to make a scientific discovery, that’s for sure. Shutterstock
There’s a reason scientists are often called “mad” and biologist Regine Gries certainly did her best to earn the moniker with her 5-year-long experiment.
Huffington Post:
The biologist has been sleeping with bedbugs for five years in a bid to create a repellant for the creepy crawlies.
According to Gries, a certain smell makes the bugs think twice about biting a human.
Bedbugs feed on human blood just as mosquitoes do. Although having bedbugs in your house can be stressful [and some people will develop an uncomfortable rash if bitten by a bug], the (U.K.‘s National Healh Services) say they do not carry harmful diseases. Gries is currently developing a liquid repellant based on her findings that she plans to sell commercially in the future.
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—Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
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Source: http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/why_did_a_woman_let_bed_bugs_bite_her_over_85000_times_20150110/
