USA Today says, "Let the bedbugs bite."
As a veteran traveler who's spent many nights in airport hotels, roadside chains and dodgy guesthouses - heck, I even braved the Dirtiest Hotel in America and lived to tell the tale - I've never seen or suffered the consequences of a bedbug. Although I know of people whose hotel stays have been ruined by waking up with red, mosquito bite-like welts, the creepy crawlies are not known to transmit diseases.
I'm tired of reading that "bedbugs don't transmit diseases." Guess what: If there were a disease that woke me up in the night with red welts, I'd want someone to find a cure!