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    A Holiday Guest Is Leaving Dangerous Poop in Your Couch

    by Lina Zeldovich Nov 01, 2017 3 minutes

    Although dust mites don’t directly harm us, they trigger allergies in about a billion people. But we aren’t allergic to the buggers themselves. We’re allergic to their poop.Image courtesy of Pavel Klimov

    e have long known that we can catch germs while traveling. Recent years have shown that we can also bring home bed bugs. A 2014  informs us that by merely plopping into the seat of a car or airplane, we can unknowingly pick up dust mites—microscopic 8-legged arthropods that eat the dead parts of our bodies such as skin scales, dandruff flakes, and hair. Dust mites

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