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Last week’s Town Hall Meeting in Cincinnati »

It’s a week later, but I did want to comment on the media’s follow-up from last week’s Town Hall Meeting in Cincinnati, about the bed bug problem.
WCPO.com’s Lynn Groud reported on the event last Monday. Hundreds of bed bug sufferers turned out. One speaker said:
“For many older adults, they are a 24-hour a day […]

Business Week: The Cost of Bed Bugs »

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Finally, someone in the business arena sees the light about bed bugs and the bottom line: and it’s not the flashing dollar signs of the over-the-counter bed bug spray industry, either. Kerry Miller published an article entitled “The Cost of Bed […]

Bed bug spray and coffee: Cincinnati needs professional help »

No, not that DDT debate. A different one, trust me. Read on. »

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Sorry– the post is gone: removed at the request of the young person who wants to forget the whole thing ever happened. Traditional steps are being taken to eradicate bed bugs, and we wish this individual well.
Sorry to delete your comments which were so well-conceived, but we were all young once– Nobugs too!

Bed bugs usually plague a city for a few weeks before being eradicated. Really, Waterbury Health Department? »

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Waterbury, Connecticut has had a recent bed bug outbreak in a number of locations. Last week, we were told in the Republican-American online of these locations with bed bug infestations, which had been reported to the Health Dept.:
553 South Main St. (two […]

another Lawsuit: student bitten in Fordham’s satellite dorms @ The New Yorker Hotel »

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NY1 news reported Thursday that Fordham senior Michelle Hopkins has filed a suit for negligence and unspecified damages over bites incurred in her “dorm” room (click “dial-up” or “broadband” next to the photo at the NY1 site to […]

Fun ideas? »

Why not make the kids some Bugs in the Bed and curl up with that My Bedbugs DVD today!

Halifax: where the bed bug “blame game” is the law »

A new article on Halifax, Nova Scotia’s bed bug epidemic, appeared in the Chronicle Herald Friday.
According to the CBC.ca Marketplace website:

In Nova Scotia, Halifax doesn’t have clear-cut legislation for dealing with bedbugs. Responsibility for extermination falls upon the tenant if a landlord can prove a tenant brought the bugs in. The Halifax agency has found […]

NJ halfway house infested »

The once-monthly pest spraying at this halfway house wasn’t keeping bed bugs away (of course it wasn’t!) so the staffers have got some steamers.
It’s a state residential substance abuse program for women nearing the end of a prison sentence. (Withdrawl: bad. Withdrawl plus formication brought on by a bed bug infestation? […]

Jeddah tragedy: a reminder to use pesticides appropriately and as labeled »

This is just horrible. The Arab News reporrts that in Jeddah, two sisters died tragically and a third is hospitalized after their father used an industrial insecticide not meant for home use, in an attempt to kill bed bugs in their home.

Old mattresses given out as charity: will cause more harm than good »

I thought it was bad that companies were carting away used mattresses alongside new ones in their delivery trucks. But some mattress sellers go even further in their attempts to spread bed bugs.
A Canadian mattress store called Sleep Country has a program of “charity” for those in need. When a person buys a […]

Near-sighted paper celebrates dumpster diving outside NYU dorms. Oh, New York Times! »

The New York Times is fickle. In the last year, they’ve scared the pants off of New Yorkers by publishing scary articles about how bed bugs were spreading around the city and what you need to do if you find them.
So imagine my surprise to find that yesterday, Steven Kuritz published an article in […]