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Although one of the incredible things about them is that they can survive for up to a year

without feeding on any blood which makes them really formidable insects to control.

The rise of the bedbugs, leading bedbug expert James Logan

will tell us all we need to know.

Also could genetically modified pig kidneys soon be transplanted into humans the clinical trial is now awaiting approval

and why it might be time for us to reappraise the impact of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. Night night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite.

Well that's going to be a familiar rhyme at bedtime for many across the world, but it's

fast becoming one that we may need to take much more seriously because these critters are back with a vengeance and they're causing very real problems in some major cities and there are also fears they're on the move.

To separate the fact from the fiction I've been

speaking to Professor James Logan who's a bedbug expert at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical

Medicine. Bedbugs are really quite fascinating insects in their own right. A lot of people get them mixed up with house dust mites. So when you think about bed bugs in your home, you think about something microscopic that's crawling around on your bed, but those tend to be dust mites.

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