By nobugsonme on Mar 6, 2008 in HPD statistics, NYCHPD, bed bugs, bedbugs, columbia, manhattanville, morningside, new york, number crunching, nyc, seth donlin | 2 Comments
This Columbia Spectator article focuses on the personal plight of some folks with bed bugs living near Columbia University. It’s a nice article bound to raise some awareness of the problem. But what interests me is the section citing HPD statistics on bed bugs in NYC.
It cites the city’s HPD stats on bed […]
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 […]