Sixty years ago, we nearly wiped out bed bugs—but they’ve been making a steady comeback, and they’re stronger than ever.

Sequencing a genome is a bit like assembling a massive jigsaw puzzle, often with millions and millions of pieces. The key ...

As a 2012 paper put it, “With over 200 million bed bugs biting (and biting multiple times), and without any evidence of any disease resulting, the indications are that the risk of contracting an ...

Scientists mapped near-gap-free and near-error-free genomes of a susceptible bed bug strain and a superstrain around 20,000 ...

In addition, in rare cases, fleas can transmit diseases such as plague (Yersinia pestis) and typhus or parasites like tapeworms. Bed bug bites can also cause an allergic reaction. The affected ...