Category: institutions
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 Jul 14, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, costs, freehold, government, health, homelessness, institutions, mental health, new jersey, social services, treatment in institutions | 2 Comments
Bed bug news, even the important stuff that can make a difference, is often considered unimportant, and squeezed into a paragraph under the bottom of an article on something else.
NJ.com reported Friday that in Freehold, NJ,
Keith Hamilton said that bedbugs have returned to some local social-service facilities and asked if the county can make money […]
By nobugsonme on May 25, 2007 in australia, bed bugs, bedbugs, colleges, dorms, information and help, institutions, mattresses, michigan, news, stanford, steam, technological advances, tennessee, tips, tools and weapons, travel, treatment, treatment in institutions, treatment preparations | 5 Comments
Such an interesting assortment of bed bug news came through my inbox this evening.
First, WLNS of Lansing, Michigan warns that bed bugs are the pest of the 21st century, that they “wreak havoc on your skin and your life,” their incidence has increased 75% n five years (oh, I’d say much more than that), and […]
By nobugsonme on Apr 25, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, government, institutions, new york, news, schools, spread, treatment in institutions, usa, workplace | 3 Comments
The Queens Gazette reports today that Assembly Member Gianaris’s bed bug legislation is out of the Assembly Education Committee, and thus closer to being in effect. This is a follow-up on an issue we’ve been following for a long time.
Legislation by Assemblymember Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) requiring notice of bedbug infestations to all parents at […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 22, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, health, institutions, mental health, new york, news, radio, treatment in institutions, usa, workplace | 1 Comment
This news story from the Times-Herald Record’s website recordonline.com reminds us, once again, that the most vulnerable people in our society may be suffering the most from bed bugs.
Port Jervis – Patients in the mental health unit at Bon Secours Community Hospital were relocated last week amid a bedbug outbreak.
Two patients complained to doctors about […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 15, 2007 in NSW, australia, bed bugs, bedbugs, canada, dorms, hotels, houses, institutions, legal, multi-unit buildings, new york, ontario, spread, sydney, toronto, transportation, travel, treatment, treatment in hotels, treatment in institutions, usa | 6 Comments
According to the clustermap, we have a number of readers in Australia. And in neighboring Aotearoa/New Zealand too–in fact, I’m a bit worried about New Zealand–a few more of those red dots on the clustermap, and the island is going to disappear from the map like the much smaller island group of Hawai’i has, […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 3, 2007 in Presidential Towers, bed bugs, bedbugs, british columbia, canada, chicago, illinois, institutions, legal, news, treatment, usa | 3 Comments
Three tenants are suing Presidential Towers over bed bugs, according to the Chicago Tribune. Presidential Towers is an enormous complex–almost like a little village, with multiple high-rises, with its own little mall and a full-size health club inside.
Exterminators began work on the problem in January, but the bedbug infestation persists, […]
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