A Toronto man is suing a Winnipeg Howard Johnson’s motel, claiming he was bitten by bed bugs there.

CJOB in Manitoba reports,
A Toronto man has filed a civil suit against the Howard Johnson Hotel on Ellice Avenue alleging he caught a case of the bed bugs while rooming at the establishment.
Steven Lipson claims after a one-night […]

The Las Vegas Sun reports that the Tropicana has offered staff $25 for each live bed bug they find and capture.
The owners of the embattled Tropicana hotel have placed a bounty on bedbugs, offering housekeepers $25 a pop for each one brought in alive.
The offer was posted in the hotel’s housekeeping offices, raising eyebrows among […]

A gospel music group, Doc Mackenzie and the Hi-Lites, claim they were bitten by bed bugs in a Comfort Inn in Milford, Connecticut, according to News Channel 8 (WTNH).  (Click the tiny video camera symbol to see the report.)
The group was in town for a concert and had a music video to shoot that day. […]

This article reports that bed bugs are getting around in Orange County, Florida:
“Our inspectors are saying in recent months, even the last year, we’ve been seeing more complaints of bed bugs in our area,” said Dain Weister of the Orange County Health Department.
Even the most popular hotels are not immune.
WFTV channel 9 reports that one […]

Beverly Davis, a Huffington Post blogger, is embedded with campaigners at the Iowa Caucus. She reported on 12/31 in a post entitled “Biden’s Bedbug Problem” that Biden’s campaign workers had encountered bed bugs on the campaign trail, only weeks after we heard a similar story from Mary Cheney’s past.
Des Moines — “So what […]

We haven’t had any real data about how many people in Toronto are suffering from bed bugs since the 2003 survey of Toronto PCOs.
But this article in Friday’s Toronto Sun has some interesting statistics. On the one hand,
According to Reg Ayre, the city’s Healthy Environments manager, Toronto Public Health received 194 calls for […]

Mary Cheney on sleeping with bed bugs during a campaign tour:
To stretch their funds, Cheney said, candidates and staff stay in pretty bad hotels when they’re on the road.
“There are some incredibly beautiful hotels in this country,” she said, “and if you are working on a political campaign, you will be staying in none of […]

Clip of the Day:
TheStar.com | Public Health must declare bedbug war
“The problem is spreading like flames all over town. Where are the people who will deal with this problem as if they were firefighters in front of a burning building?”

Bedbuggers, Are you all reading Joe Fiorito’s articles in the Star? You really […]

Uninvited roommates move in … and they bite
Wesleyan Arms, a 60-unit senior apartment complex in Red Bank, NJ, has bed bugs. Monmouth County Health Officer Sidney B. Johnson said “bedbugs are not a health issue because they do not transmit disease but that the insects do qualify as pests.”
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Lindsay Roberts reports for WVEC.com that bed bugs are flourishing in Virginia hotels in areas such as Newport News, Hampton Roads, and Virginia Beach.
One woman is interviewed who used to work as a motel housekeeper; she started getting bitten at work, and she quit her job because of it.
“If I’m getting bit up like this, […]

Many people write to tell me of the bed bug experiences they had in this hotel, on that cruise, at that yoga retreat center. And while often they make for good stories, there are just too many to cover. It also isn’t really our place to judge whether something happened or not. […]

If we had a 24-hour bedbug channel, Mathias v. Accor Economy Lodging, Inc. would be our favorite movie of the week, with endlessly looping re-runs on weekends and major holidays.
It’s a juicy, outrageous story complete with scenes of the plaintiff’s lawyer passing a jar of bedbugs to the jurors and damning testimony by a former […]