PETA would be proud in that no bedbugs were actually harmed in the hospital setting making of this movie---only stunt doubles...
Limitations of our study include that it was a small pilot study and that bedbugs were not placed in a hospital room. Spores were used in the hospital room as a surrogate for bedbugs, and ClO2 demonstrated excellent killing activity and penetration in the laboratory and against the bedbug surrogates in the hospital room. The spores used in the room are well-known ClO2 biological indicators because of their difficulty to kill. We did not conduct formal structural testing of synthetic materials and electronic equipment used within hospital rooms.