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USDA Open Ideas: ARS
The USDA Agricultural Research Service is soliciting customer and stakeholder input on planning and setting research priorities for its veterinary, medical and urban entomology research program. Below you will find four short questions that we are asking you to answer, or you can post your own ideas. This information will help guide us in developing our research plans for the next five years.
Blood-engorged bed bugs regulary pop like a balloon when lightly crushed during extermination activities and the workers' gloves and application equipment are covered with visible amounts of human blood. How long after a blood meal do the blood-born pathogens remain viable and what decontamination steps should be recommended?
