[blakestyger]

I had a real bug the other week. I was waiting for the shower to run hot and noticed in the mirror a  tick clamped to my chest. So it was down to casualty and 20 minutes spent digging all of out followed by a course of dioxycycline - you can't be too careful, as you don't know if your tick was healthy or a Lyme carrier!

[Mjhavok]

I think I read somewhere that if you use a pillow for 2 years without washing or changing it(who would?) then between 10-30% of the weight of the pillow is made up of bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) and their faecal matter. My immunology lecturer also told me this about 3 weeks ago, although I haven't read a scientific paper on it.

[rosalind dna]

In fact we all have bacteria on or in our bodies but they are not infectious or so I've been told but scabies crawls in under your skin and itches like **** and scars too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scabies