Today’s bed bug news:

• CBBC Newsround | UK | Look out, there are bedbugs about How to scare the children, from the Children’s BBC. Remember it was just a few years ago when the CBBC thought bed bugs were the same as dust mites. We’ve come a long way, babies.
• San Jose Mercury News – Action Line: The bedbugs are biting at tenants’ apartments
  San Jose Mercury News tenants’ Q and A thinks rental insurance may sometimes pay for bed bug-related expenses (or landlord’s insurance, or PCO’s insurance). We had heard from readers renter’s insurance never covered this. Would love to be proven wrong.
• Scabies? Malaria? Chagas? Tapeworm? Bee Attack? Rat Bite? Rabies? Bedbugs? Hantavirus? Snake Attack?
  “The producers of ‘The Deadliest Catch’ and ‘Ice Road Truckers’ are producing a new show for Discovery Channel and are looking for all types of unique and interesting tales of and disease and infestation… We can’t wait to hear yours!” Seriously, they consider your bed bug story (or, indeed, your scabies story) to be on par with these other horrors. Click the link above to audition, and be glad you did not have rabies.

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