It mentions various downsides of bedbugs but doesn't mention blood borne diseases... Isn't that how it works, if it bit a guy with hepatitis then bit you, you will probably get it?
To date, no published study has demonstrated a causal relationship between bed bugs and infectious disease transmission in humans. Also, we present and propose to expand on previous hypotheses as to why bed bugs do not transmit human pathogens. Bed bugs may contain “neutralizing factors” that attenuate pathogen virulence and, thereby, decrease the ability of bed bugs to transmit infectious disease: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5007277/
https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/stories/2019/world-deadlies...
[Edit: posted before your edit. Bonus points for the "suckers" pun :) ]
Why dont they say stop and not decrease ?
So they can transmit pathogens ?
How did this paper get published