Category: boston
By nobugsonme on Apr 30, 2008 in bed bug bites, bed bug inspections, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bedbugs, boston, canada, cityhousing, hamilton, hamilton public health, landlords and bed bugs, multi-unit dwellings, neighbors, ontario, stan yung | 1 Comment
The Hamilton Spectator reports on the spread of bed bugs in that Ontario city.
The story focuses on Lisa Courtney’s bed bug battle:
Courtney tossed out her bed, mattress and linens. CityHousing, Hamilton’s social housing agency, had her Cumberland Avenue apartment treated and life returned to normal.
But now, the bedbugs are back. Courtney’s anxiety has shot up […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 6, 2008 in YMCA, YMCA Greater Boston, bed bugs, bedbugs, boston, funding, homeless, homelessness, shelter, transitional housing | 0 Comments
Bed bugs are one of the problems 63 formerly homeless men in transitional housing in a Boston YMCA are having to put up with. The building has apparently been so neglected so long that program sponsors may begin witholding rent.
Ironically, when these men have made the choice to leave homelessness behind, they’re made to live […]
By nobugsonme on Jan 6, 2008 in 2010 Winter Olympics, Bloor Street, Paula Fletcher, The Star, Toronto City Council, bed bug dog, bed bug protocol, bed bug task force, bed bugs, bed bugs and health, bed bugs and public health, bedbugs, boston, canada, cincinnati, downtown eastside, get rid of bed bugs, getting rid of bed bugs, health, health department, laundry, london, new york city, notifying tenants, nyc, ontario, politicians, purity pest control, san francisco, south of bloor, toronto, vancouver | 0 Comments
Jennifer Brown of The Star reports that Toronto politician Paula Fletcher is agitated about bed bugs–and trying to do something about them.
She wants the health department to investigate whether they’re a health hazard:
Toronto Councillor Paula Fletcher (Ward 30, Toronto-Danforth) has received so many calls from constituents she’s asked the health department to declare them a […]
By nobugsonme on Jan 3, 2008 in Bed Bug Dogs, bed bug dogs and hotels, bed bugs, bedbugs, boston, boston globe, detecting bed bugs, finding bed bugs, hotels, hotels and bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, jury's hotel, massachusetts, mattress encasements, omni parker house, prevent bed bugs, travel | 3 Comments
The Boston Globe has a new article about bed bugs, mainly focusing on how ten or so hotels in Boston are employing a bed bug dog to do regular walkthroughs.
In the 3 1/2 years it’s been open, Jurys Boston Hotel has never found bedbugs on its premises, nor have its guests complained about being bitten. […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 26, 2007 in "bites", bed bugs, bedbugs, boston, cambridge, colleges, columbia, diagnosis, dorms, dr. michael alpert, entomologists, harvard, itchy, ivy league, massachusetts, mites, mosquitoes, mystery, new york, nyc, rashes, scabies, usa | 6 Comments
Ivy League gossip blog the IvyGate explained this week that the supposed scabies outbreak that forced everyone in the Pennypacker Harvard freshman dorm to be treated for scabies with a full-body pyrethrin cream application (not to mention making them all undergo the extensive laundering and calling-of-romantic-partners that condition requires), is now thought not to have […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 9, 2007 in Boston University, bed bugs, bedbugs, boston, colleges, dorms, england, ignorance, institutions, london, signs and symptoms, spread, students, study abroad, treatment, uk | 2 Comments
Some Boston University students claim they were bitten by bed bugs in a London BU dorm, that the infestation was not properly identified or treated, and that they were threatened with losing future study abroad privileges if they told anyone about their experience, according to this article by Matt Kaplan in the BU independent student […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 27, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, boston, celebrities, massachusetts, new york, nyc, pop culture, spread, usa | 0 Comments
Margaret Cho is bringing her touring burlesque-style variety show to The Zipper Factory in New York City this week. Bed bugs came up near the end of this interview with Tony Phillips in Boston’s online journal Edge.
The context is that interviewer Tony Phillips is apologizing for not having more suggestions for Cho’s stay in […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 15, 2007 in MIT, bed bugs, bed bugs at MIT, bed bugs in dorms, bedbugs, boston, colleges, connecticut, dorms, how to avoid bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, massachusetts, students, students and bed bugs, treatment, usa, waterbury | 4 Comments
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 […]
By nobugsonme on Jul 15, 2007 in ABCDC, Allston-Brighton, SROs, VANDU, activism, bed bugs, bedbugs, boston, british columbia, canada, downtown eastside, furnishing bedbug-free homes, good ideas, government, hotels, low-income housing, massachusetts, mattresses, multi-unit buildings, public education, treatment, treatment in hotels, usa, vancouver | 8 Comments
Vancouver’s Radio CKNW (AM980) reports on their website Saturday:
Advocacy group fights bed bug outbreak
VANCOUVER - Community advocacy group the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users VANDU is trying to fight a massive outbreak of bedbugs in that city’s Downtown Eastside by gutting infested rooms.
The group’s Anne Livingston says residents have had six weeks notice to […]
By nobugsonme on Jun 18, 2007 in ABCDC, Allston-Brighton, activism, affordable housing, bed bugs, bedbugs, boston, money, treatment | 0 Comments
According to this article in TownOnline, the Allston-Brighton Community Development Corporation has announced that its grants to people with bed bugs (to help pay for treatment) have run out for this fiscal year. Their program is state-funded, and they’re hoping for more funds.
The ABCDC is the only group in Massachusetts that helps people pay […]
By parakeets on Jun 14, 2007 in ABCDC, bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bedbugs, blame game, boston, conferences, consumer, government, hotels, housing laws, information and help, landlords, lawsuits, legal, massachusetts, professional advice, public education, spread, tools and weapons, travel, treatment | 17 Comments
I was able to go to the Second Greater Boston Bed Bug Conference yesterday, June 13, 2007. The sub-title was “Extermination and Legislation.” There were many people there, maybe 100 or more, from diverse areas such as government, public housing, inspection services, senior services, property managers and exterminators. They even had live […]
By nobugsonme on Jun 7, 2007 in ABCDC, Brooklyn, Queens, Tipping Point, bed bugs, bedbugs, bombs, boston, conferences, doing your own pest control, foggers, government, illinois, massachusetts, multi-unit buildings, new mexico, new york, news, social services, spread, tenants, usa, workplace | 4 Comments
A news round-up for today:
This article in the Quad-Cities Online reported yesterday on bed bug infestations in a public housing complex in East Moline, Illinois. The reporter quotes one resident who has been battling bed bugs since fall.
“I work too. My tax dollars are going to support places like this (government run low-income housing). […]
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