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Article: Study finds bug zappers spread germs
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 27, 1999
- Author:
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Electric bug zappers may not be hazardous only to the health of
flying pests - they also may spread viruses and bacteria the insects
carry.
Alberto Broce and James Urban of Kansas State University studied
bug zappers by putting microorganisms on flies and measuring how far
the microbes flew when the insects were zapped. They found that
microbes could be spread as far as 6 feet.
The ...
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... ... hoping to avoid the bugs. To do the latter they often purchase bug zappers. Mark Kepler, agriculture agent at Purdue University Cooperative ... or flies because those insects sleep at night. Industrial bug zappers will work, he says, if used in the right place and under ...
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