By nobugsonme on Aug 13, 2007 in affordable housing, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, connecticut, low-income housing, mattresses, multi-unit buildings, new haven, news, prevention, public education, public housing, spread, tenants, treatment, usa | 3 Comments
When we first heard part of New Haven’s Crawford Manor public housing was infested with bed bugs, housing officials were taking the infestations seriously (good) but also moving tenants from infested home to local hotels and then other apartments (not good), and also rushing to blame a woman who carries her belongings around and has [...]
By nobugsonme on Jul 31, 2007 in affordable housing, bed bugs, bedbugs, connecticut, elderly, government, health, low-income housing, multi-unit buildings, new haven, news, spread, townhouses, treatment, usa | 1 Comment
We recently reported the rise of bed bugs in the Crawford Manor apartments and the University of Bridgeport, both in New Haven, CT. Now another housing complex, Essex Townhouses, is infested, as reported by WTNH.com. The article focuses on Kathyrn Abreu, 73, and her daughter Kathyrn Yukness. The mother, Abreu, says,
“I lost [...]
By nobugsonme on Jul 24, 2007 in bed bugs, bed bugs in dorms, bedbugs, clothing, colleges, connecticut, dorms, new haven, university of bridgeport | 5 Comments
Sounds like New Haven is getting mighty itchy lately.
According to News Channel 8 (WTNH) in New Haven, University of Bridgeport’s North Hall has bed bugs.
Graduate student Li-Wen Chen had so many bites she sought treatment at St. Vincent’s Medical Center.
The school has fumigated the building, but students say another problem occurred when it came to [...]
By nobugsonme on Jul 23, 2007 in bed bug dog, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, connecticut, furniture, government, laundry, low-income housing, multi-unit buildings, new haven, news, prevention, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, public education, public housing, treatment, treatment preparations, usa | 0 Comments
More on the New Haven case described here on Friday.
A more recent article from News 8 in New Haven suggests that the
The infestation started in one unit and moved to 14 other apartments. The city paid for hotel rooms so the professionals could come in and steam clean room by room, bed by [...]
By nobugsonme on Jul 20, 2007 in bed bug bites, bed bug blame game, bed bug refugees, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, blame game, connecticut, detection, furniture, hotels, mattresses, misdiagnoses, multi-unit buildings, nevada, new haven, news, public education, spread, tenants, treatment, treatment preparations, usa | 2 Comments
In Reno, they have so few bed bug cases, that the health department called three residents of an apartment complex to tell them their building is infested. (New Yorkers, are you laughing?!)
Unfortunately, as Geralda Miller of the Reno Gazette Journal reports, the advice being given to tenants is not great:
“They’re an indoor critter,” [Jeff [...]
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