Category: ignorance
By nobugsonme on Nov 14, 2007 in Huffington Post, Nicholas Brown, apartments, bed bug epidemic, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bedbugs, dealing with bed bugs, disclosure, get rid of bed bugs, housing laws, how to get rid of bed bugs, how to kill bed bugs, ignorance, landlord knew, landlords, law, lawsuits, legal, living with bed bugs, new york, nyc, pest control, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, tenants, treatment, usa | 4 Comments
There’s a new update to Nicholas Brown’s bed bug journal on the Huffington Post today, and it takes us through the 39th day of living with bed bugs during treatment.
In this installment, we learn that bed bugs are taking a significant toll on Brown’s self-identity and social life:
Despite my anger, even our bug-laden living situation […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 3, 2007 in bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bed bugs in schools, bedbugs, best practices, blame game, bracken county, children and bed bugs, detection, diagnosis, doe, employee, government, health, health department, how to get rid of bed bugs, how to kill bed bugs, ignorance, maryland, misinformation, new york, pest control, pest control in schools, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, public education, public health, scapegoating, schools, signs and symptoms, students, tools and weapons, treatment, treatment in institutions, treatment in schools, usa, warning, workplace | 1 Comment
More information about the Bracken County Schools bed bug situation. A new article from WCPO.com news says T&M Pest Control is treating Bracken County schools for bed bugs this weekend.
Terry says, “A pest control program for bed bugs is very detailed. You’ve got to get all the crevices. We are doing a little more […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 27, 2007 in Cadwalader, activism, allergies, apartments, awareness, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, big business, bloomberg, cambridge, colleges, condominiums, consumer, curbed, denial, detection, good ideas, gossip, harvard, health, hotels, ignorance, landlords, law, lawsuits, legal, massachusetts, mental health, multi-unit buildings, new york, nyc, public education, public health, real estate, rumors, spread, tenants, treatment, usa, we're doomed, workplace | 0 Comments
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 […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 19, 2007 in activism, alberta, apartments, awareness, bed bug blame game, bed bug refugees, bed bugs, bedbugs, blame game, canada, detection, disabled, elderly, eviction, government, ignorance, information and help, landlords, legal, multi-unit buildings, new jersey, notification, prep, public education, social services, tenants, treatment, treatment preparations, usa | 17 Comments
The Daily Record reports that a landlord is trying to evict George Veghte, a disabled man from Rutgers Village, a complex in Parsippany, NJ. He asked for help with his bed bugs. They told him to prep, but he could not follow all steps on his own.
His lease was terminated Sept. 27, about […]
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 Oct 5, 2007 in Halcyon House, SROs, affordable housing, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, big business, cincinnati, colorado, costs, curbside, doctors and nurses, elderly, furniture, good ideas, government, health, hospitals, hotels, ignorance, illinois, institutions, kill them now we're doomed, low-income housing, motels, multi-unit buildings, ohio, public education, public health, public housing, rage, schools, shelters, signs and symptoms, slumlords, social services, spread, tenants, tools and weapons, tossing stuff out, treatment, usa, washington, washington DC | 6 Comments
According to Channel 12 WKRC in Cincinnati (doesn’t Howard Hesseman work there?), residents at the Hillrise Apartment building, which is owned by Cincinnati Business & Professional Women’s Retirement Living Incorporated, are suffering from various issues including bed bugs.
Calvin Merritt’s problems at Hillrise Apartments are pretty simple.
“Mostly bugs, roaches and all that…”
The “all […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 23, 2007 in Waterbury Health Department, activism, apartments, bad ideas, bed bug refugees, bed bugs, bedbugs, connecticut, health, houses, ignorance, journalist, kill them now, landlords, loopy ideas, low-income housing, misinformation, multi-unit buildings, news, public health, spread, treatment, usa, waterbury | 8 Comments
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Waterbury, Connecticut has had a recent bed bug outbreak in a number of locations. Last week, we were told in the Republican-American online of these locations with bed bug infestations, which had been reported to the Health Dept.:
553 South Main St. (two […]
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