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Bed bugs at Berkeley will be treated with… say what? »

Bed bugs in student housing in Berkeley, at the University of California, the Daily Californian reports.
Three apartment units at the Smyth-Fernwald Complex near Clark Kerr Campus could have been infested with bedbugs as early as March, according to Jeff Urdahl, campus director for housing operations, maintenance and environment.
Yadda, yadda… it happens, and is probably happening […]

Bed bugs at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec »

Bed bugs have infested rooms in McGill student housing buildings the New Residence, the MORE house at 522 Pins, and now in Solin Hall, the McGill Daily reports.
Student Aaryn Secker finally moved out after battling bed bugs in Solin Hall for months:
Secker notified Howard Zinman, Services Coordinator for Solin Hall, after discovering tiny red bites […]

Bed bugs at the College of New Jersey »

Bed bugs have recently been a problem at the College of New Jersey, according to the Signal.
Jessie Lamotta, now a junior history major at the College, was pestered by bed bugs on Cromwell 3 from move-in day to sometime in October during her freshman year.
“My roommate woke up with little red bumps on her body, […]

How to avoid bed bugs, according to Texas A&M’s student paper »

Independent Texas A&M student paper thebatt.com covers bed bugs this week. They mention the seminars in New York City, and the interesting research out of the Center for Urban and Structural Entomology (CUSE, housed at Texas A&M) on bed bugs and chicken farms. And–because it’s a college paper, perhaps–they dig right into the […]

Bed bugs in casino and senior apartments in New Jersey, Binghamton University (again) and another dust mite photo in the news »

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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bed bugs in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and at Cornell University dorms »

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Online: Stealthy bedbugs pestering the weary
Bed bugs in Milwaukee, WI. Mattress covers don’t need to be “airtight” and the best ones do let air circulate. Most do not smell “a musty, sweet odor like soda”. One landlord is letting tenants out of leases and paying for one treatment in new […]

bed bug news for 2007-11-15 »

National Post: Bed bugs invade Toronto
East Toronto city councillor Paula Fletcher asked the Toronto public health unit on Monday to study what it could do to eradicate the problem of bed bugs. Right now the public health unit does not track infestations, but simply offers phone advice to suff
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Curbed “outs” bedbugged condo development; gossip blogs, bed bugs, and denial »

Curbed.com, the real estate blog, claims that 30 Lincoln Plaza, currently being redeveloped into pricey condominiums (Curbed mentions a price of $1,185,000 for 647 sq/ft one bedrooms), is infested with bed bugs:
UPPER WEST SIDE—It seems there is a little detail about the condo conversion at 30 Lincoln Plaza that may have been overlooked: “You failed […]

Harvard dorm treated for scabies–but what was it really? Also, bed bugs at Columbia? »

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 […]

Bed bugs at Stanford again »

According to the Stanford Daily, bed bugs are biting at Paloma, a West Florence Moore dorm. The bed bugs still appear to be ably handled by Rich Crane.
The article said,
“Student Housing has been informed of a few cases of bedbugs on campus for about the past six to seven years,” Imogen Hinds, associate director of […]

No, not that DDT debate. A different one, trust me. Read on. »

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Sorry– the post is gone: removed at the request of the young person who wants to forget the whole thing ever happened. Traditional steps are being taken to eradicate bed bugs, and we wish this individual well.
Sorry to delete your comments which were so well-conceived, but we were all young once– Nobugs too!

Boston University students claim they were threatened if they did not keep quiet about bed bugs in London BU dorm »

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 […]