bed bugs in Virginia Beach (again), Brown County, Ohio, and potential health risks
By Nobugsonme on Nov 16, 2007 in Chagas' disease, Q fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, anthrax, bed bugs, bedbugs, boutonneuse fever, brown county, brucellosis, encephalomyelitis, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, epidemic jaundice (Brazzaville), epidemic typhus, exanthematous typhus, health, health department, health risks, hotel bed bugs, hotels, infectious disease, influenza, leprosy, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, macthrift motor inn, malaria, mansonelliasis, motels, oceanfront, ohio, onchocerciasis, oriental sore, paratyphoid fever, plague, pneumococcal pneumonia, poliomyelitis, public health, relapsing fever, sleeping sickness, smallpox, spread, staphylococcal septicemia, time, travel, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid fever, usa, virginia, virginia beach, virginia beach health department, yellow fever
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“Bed bugs invade another oceanfront motel. This time the health department forced the MacThrift Motor Inn on 22nd street to close off some of its rooms because of the pesky little critters.” Five rooms, to be exact.
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Bed bugs in Brown County, Ohio.
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“Dr. George J. Burton, a medical entomologist for the U.S. Public Health Service who has studied bedbugs in India and British Guiana, says in Public Health Reports that the bedbug has been accused of carrying the microbes of no fewer than 30 infectious diseases: anthrax, brucellosis, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, leprosy, paratyphoid fever, plague, pneumococcal pneumonia, staphylococcal septicemia, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid fever, boutonneuse fever, epidemic typhus, exanthematous typhus, Q fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, relapsing fever, epidemic jaundice (Brazzaville), sleeping sickness, encephalomyelitis, influenza, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, poliomyelitis, smallpox, yellow fever, Chagas’ disease, malaria, oriental sore, mansonelliasis, onchocerciasis.”
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