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Article: Night bites: the United States has a new immigration problem--bedbugs!(LIFE)
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- Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- March 3, 2006
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Critical Thinking
* Name some other insects that consume human blood. (mosquitoes, fleas, lice, horseflies, sand flies)
* Name some diseases that biting insects can transmit to people. (malaria from mosquitoes, Chagas' disease from assassin bugs, sleeping sickness from tsetse flies)
National Science Education Standards
* Structure and function in living systems: specialized body structures
* Natural hazards: human activities
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