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Speaker 1: Good morning, brain Stuff. I'm Christian Seger. You've just woken up.

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Speaker 1: Something smells musty and sweet. When you open your eyes,

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Speaker 1: your bed has a trail of molted insects, shells, rust

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Speaker 1: colored stains, and tiny smears of excrement. Just saying this

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Speaker 1: makes me feel itchy. So imagine actually finding these traces

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Speaker 1: of bed bugs in your home. We thought these little

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Speaker 1: vampires were taken care of after we bombed them to

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Speaker 1: ninety two, so we can't nooke them from orbit. Just

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Speaker 1: here's what bed bugs are, where they live, and how

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Speaker 1: bugs is cimex lectlarius, and they are parasites that feed

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Speaker 1: off of their sleeping hosts blood. The largest they get

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Speaker 1: so they're easy to miss. Their brownish wingless with six

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Speaker 1: shiny legs, and their syringe like mouthbeak is what they

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Speaker 1: use to pierce your skin and suck your blood. Now.

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Speaker 1: Unlike nos ferratu, these guys rarely wake their victims while feeding,

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Speaker 1: and they can even take three to ten minutes to

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Speaker 1: gorge on your blood. Now, while drinking, they actually release

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Speaker 1: their own saliva into your broken skin, which can eventually

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Speaker 1: cause an allergic reaction. Luckily, they don't spread disease, but

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Speaker 1: the bites can swell and itch. Except for thirty percent

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Speaker 1: of people who have no reaction to these bugs at all.

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Speaker 1: Even still, they probably won't drain you dry. It actually

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Speaker 1: would take one hundred thousand bedbugs feeding on you for

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Speaker 1: at least a week to make you anemic. Now, let's

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Speaker 1: put one misconception to rest. Though bedbugs aren't a sign

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Speaker 1: of poor hygiene. Even immaculate mansions can get them. It

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Speaker 1: only takes on to ride on in and infect your

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Speaker 1: whole home. But the messier the domicile, the more places

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Speaker 1: they have to hide. Here is a short list of

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Speaker 1: spots that they can conceal themselves. Sofa seems, bed frame cracks,

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Speaker 1: torn wall paper, backpacks, light switches, television's, clocks, phones, rugs, baseboards, curtains, clothing, towels,

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Speaker 1: or even pillows. Basically, anywhere that's dark and protected is

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Speaker 1: up for grabs. One way to tell you've got them

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Speaker 1: is from the coriander like odor that they release when

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Speaker 1: up to a year without eating, so even if you

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Speaker 1: there waiting. So then how do we kill them? Well,

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Speaker 1: must be exterminated. They're incredibly tenacious critters, and to successfully

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Speaker 1: eradicate at them sometimes takes up to four different treatments.

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Speaker 1: There's dry ice sprays, steam, vacuuming, fumigation, and insecticides. Sustained

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Speaker 1: wash all of your linen's and blast them in a

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Speaker 1: hot dryer. And remember what I said about messy clutter, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: plastic encasings around their mattress, box, spring and pillows to

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