Category: misinformation
By nobugsonme on Mar 3, 2008 in Leicestershire, bed bugs, bedbugs, england, idiocy, journalists, misinformation, photos of dust mites, uk | 0 Comments
Apparently, many journalists still don’t bother to find out what bed bugs look like!
As of writing (4 pm EST on 3/3/2008), this article from This is Leicestershire, which is obviously about bed bugs, contains a massive photo of a dust mite.
No wonder the article’s commenters think bed bugs are not such a big deal.
By nobugsonme on Jan 29, 2008 in avoid bed bugs, bed bug bites, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bed bugs and travel, bedbugs, deseret morning news, fairhaven, get rid of bed bugs, hotels and bed bugs, how to avoid bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, misinformation, salt lake city, saskatchewan, saskatoon, star phoenix, utah, vacuuming | 0 Comments
Today, bed bug news from Saskatoon and Salt Lake City.
First, an entire apartment building is being treated for bed bugs in the Fairhaven area of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan after “a couple isolated incidents” of bed bugs. This appears to be a fairly proactive move, if it is true that the incidents were isolated and few […]
By nobugsonme on Jan 1, 2008 in 2008, bed bug news, bed bugs, bed bugs in the media, bedbugs, daily news, misinformation, new year, new york, nyc | 0 Comments
Toronto’s The Star included bed bugs in its “A Salute to 2007″ (a round-up of significant events of the year”:
Drugs poured into the city, guns poured into the city, bedbugs poured into the city: Snort, shoot and scratch.
The Daily News article was picked up by everyone from The Register (an IT website), to Gothamist, […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 11, 2007 in Joe Fiorito, The Star, bed bug education, bed bug treatment, bedbugs, billings, florida, get rid of bed bugs, homeless, homeless shelter, how to get rid of bed bugs, low-income housing, mattresses, misinformation, montana, montana rescue mission, mosquitos, ontario, orlando, public housing, streets, tenants, throwing away mattresses, throwing stuff out, toronto, toronto community housing corporation, tossing out mattresses, tossing things out | 1 Comment
TheStar.com | Joe Fiorito updates us on prior bed bug story
“… when bedbugs spread to her apartment, and when the Toronto Community Housing Corporation could not respond to her complaints…, she booked a fumigator on her own and paid… to take care of the problem. She has now been reimbursed by TCHC.” This […]
By Nobugsonme on Nov 22, 2007 in NJ, NY, SUNY, atlantic city, bed bug epidemic, bed bugs, bed bugs in hotels, bedbugs, binghamton university, broome county, casino, colleges, diane o'hora, dust mite photos, dust mites, education, elderly, get rid of bed bugs, health, misinformation, monmouth county health department, new jersey, new york, new zealand, public health, red bank, seniors, sidney b. johnson, spread, trendy, tropicana, wesleyan arms | 1 Comment
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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By Nobugsonme on Nov 17, 2007 in bed bug epidemic, bed bug odor, bed bug smell, bed bugs, bedbugs, colleges, cornell university, dorms, get rid of bed bugs, journal-sentinel, kill bed bugs, landlords, mattress encasements, milwaukee, misinformation, odor, residence halls, spread, students, tenants, universities, wisconsin | 0 Comments
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 […]
By Nobugsonme on Nov 15, 2007 in East Toronto, Paula Fletcher, Toronto City Council, bed bugs, bed bugs and health, canada, dust mite photo, dust mites, government, health, misinformation, ontario, public health, toronto, torontoist | 6 Comments
Torontoist: BEDBUG EPIDEMIC! Not To Be Alarmist Or Anything.
Torontoist includes a picture of a dust mite in their article about Paula Fletcher’s move to have bed bugs declared a “health hazard” in Toronto (item viewed 11/15 at 11 am EST). This is precisely why we keep calling for a public education campaign.
(tags: dustmites dustmitephoto […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 12, 2007 in Cincinnati City Council, Cincinnati Health Department, Cincinnati town hall meeting, Cincinnati-Hamilton County Community Action Agency, Council On Aging for Southwestern Ohio, Susan C. Jones, awareness, bad ideas, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, cincinnati, dealing with bed bugs, dr. susan jones, education, entomologists, good ideas, government, government response to bed bugs, health, health department, how to get rid of bed bugs, how to kill bed bugs, misinformation, ohio, professional advice, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, public education, public health, tips, treatment, usa | 0 Comments
It’s a week later, but I did want to comment on the media’s follow-up from last week’s Town Hall Meeting in Cincinnati, about the bed bug problem.
WCPO.com’s Lynn Groud reported on the event last Monday. Hundreds of bed bug sufferers turned out. One speaker said:
“For many older adults, they are a 24-hour a day […]
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 21, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, exposure, hospitals, misinformation, treatment in institutions, uk, wales | 0 Comments
Welsh Bedbuggers would do well not to put too much stock in this article from Wales on Sunday via icWales.com, since it repeatedly refers to bed bugs as “mites” (hint: bed bugs are insects; mites belong to the class Arachnida (as do spiders). Not bad for a humanities major, eh folks?
The article suggests hospitals […]
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 […]
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