Canadian news weekly Maclean’s has a story on bed bugs dated January 3, 2008 by John Intini.
The article conveys the scope of the problem and the speed at which it seems to be spreading:
To get a full sense of the bedbug boom, ask any pest control expert. [Carlo] Panacci, for one, used to have a […]

Bed bug podcasts, bed bug news:

Pest Management Professional - Continued technological and educational advancement in pest detection, identification, treatment and control methods. | Web Exclusive | 10 Questions with Jerome GoddardTen Questions with Jerome Goddard (Pest Management Professional Podcast)–includes interesting discussion of whether bed bugs are potential transmitters of disease, or not. From 9/06, […]

Mary Cheney on sleeping with bed bugs during a campaign tour:
To stretch their funds, Cheney said, candidates and staff stay in pretty bad hotels when they’re on the road.
“There are some incredibly beautiful hotels in this country,” she said, “and if you are working on a political campaign, you will be staying in none of […]

Apartmentratings.com is a way to check what other tenants are saying about your building. It is not widely used, but like anything else, can be another tool, along with the bedbugregistry.com. Don’t forget to leave your review and warn others. There are 623 posts today featuring “bed bugs.” Don’t forget to search […]

Slightly delayed news round-up:
newyorkshitty.com » ‘Tis The Season: Don’t Let The Bedbugs Bite!
miss heather of newyorkshitty.com shares a current photo of suspected bed bug refuse at the Astral Apartments in Greenpoint, and shares an article from exactly 121 years ago, decrying the need for “quality affordable housing”, free of vermin.
Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Valley […]

Nicholas Brown: The Bedbug Chronicles: Part 7 - Living on The Huffington Post
The same day that we ask, with Rene Laraine, what might be causing his bed bugs to persist despite nine bed bug treatments by licensed PCOs, Nicholas Brown brings to mind similar concerns.
Brown, chronicling his bed bug experience on the Huffington Post, is […]

Just as the Lexington-Fayette Health Department did, the State of Kentucky invites residents with bed bugs to call their Public Health Department, according to this article in the Central Kentucky News-Journal online.

Public Health Commissioner William Hacker, M.D., recommends that people who think they may have a problem with bed bugs seek advice from their local […]

It was just over a year ago when a journalist claimed a reliable source told her of bed bugs infesting the midtown Manhattan offices of Fox News. The allegation was that the infestation “originated on the VIP couch,” a tidbit which might be apocryphal, but is too good to pass up.
Still, I was skeptical […]

National Post: Bed bugs invade Toronto
East Toronto city councillor Paula Fletcher asked the Toronto public health unit on Monday to study what it could do to eradicate the problem of bed bugs. Right now the public health unit does not track infestations, but simply offers phone advice to suff
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New York Magazine has a new bed bug story dated November 12th (print edition of 11/19), by Melissa Kirsch.
It contains lots of solid advice about not picking up curbside furniture, being wary of Craigslist finds, and searching for fecal spots and blood stains. But it also contains some advice we don’t normally […]

Note to readers: I am experimenting with posting some brief bed bug news links–with shorter commentary from me. I will still be doing more in-depth analyses (as often as before), but since the volume of stories is increasing, in this way, I can share more of the news with you, more promptly. Let me […]

There is so much bed bug news now, that blogging even half of the major articles that come across my web browser is too much. I offer a selection, as well as an interesting tidbit from a NYC blogger. More news forthcoming, including an update on Cincinnati, and some exciting developments in San […]