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Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World . By Brooke Borel. 2015. University of Chicago Press (ISBN 978-0226041933). 224 pages. Hardcover, $26. This is a delightful read (for the non-entomophobe) about one woman's journey to discover all she can about the biology, history, sociology, and resurgence of the bed bug, Cimex lectularius . The interest of the author to embark on writing this small treatise – part travelogue, part science journalism, and part nonfiction mystery – arose from her long-undiagnosed bites that originated within her New York City apartment in 2004. After discovering what the bites were, the author obsessively learned all she could about these nighttime mini-vampires. Clearly, the bed bugs chose the wrong woman to bite – a skilled science writer. Ms. Borel may, through her journalism, help change public misunderstanding of bed bugs. She has been privileged to hob-nob with the …
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