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Bed bugs at the University of Vermont »

This from the Vermont Cynic, the University of Vermont’s student paper, which claims bed bugs are in UVM’s Living/Learning’s B-Building, in German House (”bed bug” is die Wanze to our Deutsch-speaking friends).
Students in a suite of Living/Learning’s B-building were displaced last week after it was discovered that one of the inhabitants had been bitten by […]

Bed bugs at the College of New Jersey »

Bed bugs have recently been a problem at the College of New Jersey, according to the Signal.
Jessie Lamotta, now a junior history major at the College, was pestered by bed bugs on Cromwell 3 from move-in day to sometime in October during her freshman year.
“My roommate woke up with little red bumps on her body, […]

bed bug news for 2007-11-15 »

National Post: Bed bugs invade Toronto
East Toronto city councillor Paula Fletcher asked the Toronto public health unit on Monday to study what it could do to eradicate the problem of bed bugs. Right now the public health unit does not track infestations, but simply offers phone advice to suff
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Bed bug news round-up: Waterbury, Connecticut; MIT »

Bed bugs creeping their way around Waterbury, CT, the Republican-American reported on Friday that the Waterbury Health Department has gotten complaints from around the city:
The health department also received complaints of infestations of two apartments at 553 South Main St., and one apartment each in apartment buildings or multifamily homes at 42 Pine St. (the […]

bed bugs at University of Bridgeport »

Sounds like New Haven is getting mighty itchy lately.

According to News Channel 8 (WTNH) in New Haven, University of Bridgeport’s North Hall has bed bugs.
Graduate student Li-Wen Chen had so many bites she sought treatment at St. Vincent’s Medical Center.
The school has fumigated the building, but students say another problem occurred when it came to […]

Bed bugs also causing havoc in England & Northern Ireland: university residence, hospital staff residence, possibly a school, infested »

In light of the story from Ireland today, I wanted to check in on England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and so I looked through the BBC’s coverage of bed bugs over the past year.
On August 17th, 2006 the BBC reported that a residence for doctors and nurses in a hospital in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, […]

Are the bed bugs bigger in Texas? University of Texas at Dallas students infested with bed bugs »

The latest college to be hit (or, at least, to admit it): The University of Texas at Dallas campus, reports NBC5 in Dallas / Fort Worth.
The university acknowledged that they’re dealing with an infestation of bed bugs. School officials said 15 units on campus were found to have bed bugs. The school has received more […]

80% of Single Room Occupancy units in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside are infested with bed bugs; also Rensselaer Polytechnic’s dorms »

Two bed bug newsbites:
From Vancouver 24 Hours:

The majority of low- income single-occupant rooms in the Downtown Eastside are infested with bed bugs, according to a report from the City of Vancouver. Environmental health officers inspected 3,100 DTES hotel rooms and found 80 per cent had bed bugs. The city hopes to expand a small […]

Comment dites-vous le bed bugs en français? »

We just heard about the recurring bed bugs at the Ryerson dorms in Toronto. Now another Canadian University, McGill in Montreal, is seeing red (well, rust-colored bugs, anyway), as reported by the McGill Daily. Students in MORE House (a brand new building) are battling a bedbug infestation that’s been in the same […]