“Bed bugs invade another oceanfront motel. This time the health department forced the MacThrift Motor Inn on 22nd street to close off some of its rooms because of the pesky little critters.” Five rooms, to be exact.

(tags: virginiabeach virginia bedbugs spread motels hotels macthrift oceanfront healthdepartment virginiabeachhealthdepartment 2007 nov2007)

Bed bugs in Brown County, Ohio.

(tags: browncounty bedbugs bedbug ohio spread 2007 nov2007 newsdemocrat.com)

“Dr. George J. Burton, a medical entomologist for the U.S. Public Health Service who has studied bedbugs in India and British Guiana, says in Public Health Reports that the bedbug has been accused of carrying the microbes of no fewer than 30 infectious diseases: anthrax, brucellosis, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, leprosy, paratyphoid fever, plague, pneumococcal pneumonia, staphylococcal septicemia, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid fever, boutonneuse fever, epidemic typhus, exanthematous typhus, Q fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, relapsing fever, epidemic jaundice (Brazzaville), sleeping sickness, encephalomyelitis, influenza, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, poliomyelitis, smallpox, yellow fever, Chagas’ disease, malaria, oriental sore, mansonelliasis, onchocerciasis.”

(tags: bedbugs bedbug health TIME 1963)