This brief article from Women’s Health rather glosses over the difficulty of eradicating many bed bug infestations:

. . . recent stats show that ticks and bedbugs have been ramping up their itty-bitty attacks. Luckily, it’s easier than you think to KO the little creeps.
How easy is it to get rid of bed bugs?
Is it possible? […]

Housing and Preservation Department Educator Edward Brownbear told those in attendance at the Greenpoint HPD Bed Bug Seminar on Tuesday night that bed bugs had been found on benches at a number of different subway stations.
Miss Heather and Renee of New York vs. Bed bugs both blogged about that terrifying (but as to be expected) […]

Playbill reports that a play entitled Bedbugs! has been selected for the Next Link Project:

The fifth-annual New York Musical Theatre Festival has announced the 12 musicals selected for its Next Link Project.
The three-week festival – running Sept. 15–Oct. 5 – features musicals from around the world, culled from invitations and an open-submission process.
The works accepted […]

Every spring, Time Out New York does an issue on the apartment rental market. The 2008 issue, out this week, features a story where an interior decorator, plumber, and pest control operator go into prospective rental units and inspect them. The “exterminator” (Samuel Soto of First Rate Exterminators) is looking for roaches, rats, […]

The first episode (dealing with rats) airs tonight (Monday 4/21) on Discovery at 10:00 pm (check your local listings).
But much more exciting news, to you and I, is that next Monday’s show (4/28) will feature bed bugs!
The the Verminators episode guide states,
Verminators
Rookie Mistakes
TV-PG (LV)
Mike loses his cool when one of the rookies almost blows up […]

I finally had a chance to listen to David Cain’s UK radio appearance last Friday via the BBC iPlayer interface (which requires a RealPlayer plugin; I’m on a Mac and I was able to listen; I am sure Windows users will have no trouble).
Go to this link.
Find “The Breakfast Show with JoAnne Good” in the […]

Three articles on bed bugs appeared today in the Washington Post. One gives a first-person account of what was apparently a not-so-serious bed bug case, and the second shrugs away the problem as a bunch of media hype.
“Yes, Tiny, Evil–and in My Bed” is the first, and provides yet another first-person account from […]

The Gateway Center, a building in Covington, Ohio Kentucky where 5,000 IRS employees work, has bed bugs.
The article implies that treatments have occurred at four-week intervals:
Gateway Center officials said that after the first bug was found on the third floor in October, all floors were chemically treated.
Those treatments are scheduled on a monthly basis, officials […]

Canadian news weekly Maclean’s has a story on bed bugs dated January 3, 2008 by John Intini.
The article conveys the scope of the problem and the speed at which it seems to be spreading:
To get a full sense of the bedbug boom, ask any pest control expert. [Carlo] Panacci, for one, used to have a […]

The author of this forum post, asked me to repost it here, for a wider audience:
I am co-producing a short documentary on Bed Bugs in the NY area for the festival market, and looking for gruesome tales of Bed Bug experiences. Here is a chance to share your tale.
The time committment would be 2 to […]

I am always on the alert for bed bugs in the media: not just the news, but television shows (like The Simpsons), movies, etc.
Here’s an oldie that’s “new to me” and probably you too: New York filmmaker Pearl Gluck’s 2004 beautiful documentary Divan is about her exploration of her Hasssidic heritage, and centers around […]

Toronto’s The Star included bed bugs in its “A Salute to 2007″ (a round-up of significant events of the year”:
Drugs poured into the city, guns poured into the city, bedbugs poured into the city: Snort, shoot and scratch.
The Daily News article was picked up by everyone from The Register (an IT website), to Gothamist, […]