Indoorairtest latest product offering is the Bed Bug Screen Check (BBSC) that allows the building or home occupant the ability to detect the presence of bedbugs in an around their environment.
BBSC simulates the conditions that bedbugs consider "perfect harborage": tight, dark tunneling and rough woodsy material. (Common examples are the small grooves of corrugated boxes, mattress creases and wood furniture.)
Through careful research of bedbug biology, we offer a trap that imitates these patterns. If bedbugs are nearby, they are drawn to the BBSC and trapped in its patented dot-matrix adhesive.
AP Medical writer, Mike Strobbe recently published an article stating that Canadian scientists detected drug-resistant MRSA bacteria in bedbugs from three hospital patients from a downtrodden Vancouver neighborhood.
Bedbugs have not been known to spread disease, and there's no clear evidence that the five bedbugs found on the patients or their belongings had spread the MRSA germ they were carrying or a second less dangerous drug-resistant bacteria.
However, bedbugs can cause itching that can lead to excessive scratching. That can cause breaks in the skin that make people more susceptible to these germs, noted Dr. Marc Romney, one of the study's authors.
"The spreading of MRSA in the indoor environment can be managed effectively by identifying and controlling the population of bed bugs in indoor environments" stated Dr. Rajiv Sahay, EDLab lab director. Sahay indicated “a quality Bed Bug DIY test product can be found at www.IndoorAirTest.com”
Five bedbugs were crushed and analyzed. MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, was found on three bugs. MRSA is resistant to several types of common antibiotics and can become deadly if it gets through the skin and into the bloodstream.
Two bugs had VRE, or vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium, a less dangerous form of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
It's not clear if the bacteria originated with the bedbugs or if the bugs picked it up from already infected people, Romney added. The study was released Wednesday by Emerging Infectious Diseases, a publication of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About Building Health Check, LLC:
Building Health Check, LLC’s state-of-the-art corporate headquarters is located at 4911 Creekside Dr, in Clearwater, Fl serves as manufacturing and distribution point for its DIY IAQ Test Kit products. For more information, visit the company’s web site at www.indoorairtest.com or call 1-800-422-7873.
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