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I can completely sympathise with the traumas caused by bed bugs.I spent 19 months travelling through India, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Burma and Nepal in 2007/8 and didn't encounter them once until I reached Australia and ended up renting a place in Melbourne that was infested with them. Quite a few other folks I met in Melbourne who were staying in hostels also seemed to be being munched on on a nightly basis during their stay, too, so I'm not sure if Melbourne has a particular problem or if it was just bad luck.That said, on subsequent visits to India, although I haven't encountered them anywhere else, quite a few hostels/hotels in Mumbai seem to have infestations. I will also add that throughout our stays in each of these bed bug-inhabited places, my husband hasn't been bitten once, whereas there were occasions in Melbourne when I had as many as 30 bites on at any one time, so I have concluded that as is the case with mosquitoes, some people are just more attractive to the bugs, so just because you haven't been bitten, doesn't mean that there weren't any bugs there!

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