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Introducing Law Students to Public Health Law through a Bed Bug Scenario

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Jennifer S. Bard
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Bedbugs are tiny, wingless insects which feed on mammal blood and leave behind painful, itchy sores. Although they can live in other settings, they are most commonly found in warm, dark places inhabited by humans, like beds. After being absent in the United States for over 60 years, thanks to powerful pesticides, bed bugs (Cimex lectularius), have returned in force and are present in every state and nearly every city. For reasons not entirely understood, bed bugs have developed resistance to traditional pesticides such as Permethrin and are therefore difficult to control. Although commonly believed to be associated with dirty housekeeping and associated with substandard housing, bed bugs are equally likely to be present in five-star hotels as they are in homeless shelters.

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JLME Supplement
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 43 , Issue S2 , Summer 2015 , pp. 7 - 11
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2015

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