Even ones with Lyme disease and they don't catch it, if I recall correctly.  

I have personal family experience with this sort of hoarding behavior and I can assure you, the underlying disease (perhaps in this case obsessive compulsive disorder or schizophrenia-related mental illness) is devastating as you probably can guess. 

It will be too long for someone who has a chronic disease. 

In addition, the cost by the exterminator will be over $500 per treatment.You can check the Center for Disease Control website for specific information.

What drives me is that I was born with sickle cell anemia and people born with this blood disease are statistically known to have a shorter lifespan on average.

I see vigilance having a greater role in this scenario, such as turning our senses to a growing disease taking more and more dangerous ground in our lives and livelihoods.

I was thinking what might really help him long term, his 'disease' so to speak.

Here's the EPA definition, it doesn't give a list but from that definition you can infer that lizards are not pests.While they are not living where SHE wants them they cause no damage or disease and generally stay outside so are not a nuisance.As for the bagworms again not really a pest, though they could be considered one due to eating foliage of your landscaping.

Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.

Because if you don't have deep pockets, or lots of other ground to offset the loss of one piece , weather, drought, bugs, disease, market volatility, and increasing overhead prices can take you down fast and with no remorse.