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 […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 30, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, dr. michael potter, england, entomologists, ferries, government, history, immigration, journalist, lawsuits, legal, london, loopy ideas, luggage, misinformation, new york, news, northern ireland, public education, spread, travel, uk, usa | 1 Comment
I was perplexed by this article from August 20th in the Times (London, not New York) about the spread of bed bugs, mainly because it was only about the bed bug epidemic in the USA.
Times reporter Chris Ayres writes from Los Angeles,
Five decades after being declared officially dead, the most toe-curling of all America’s […]
By nobugsonme on Jun 28, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, british columbia, canada, government, health, hotels, loopy ideas, spread, vancouver | 29 Comments
Here’s a new spin on the spread:
Vancouver’s health officer thinks people are getting bed bugs in Vancouver because they go to the Downtown Eastside and do “naughty things,” Canada’s CBC news reported yesterday.
Bedbugs are spreading across Vancouver. And the city’s chief medical health officer is blaming promiscuity for the itchy problem.
“People occasionally go to […]
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