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Pillow Fight New York City 2008
Photo uploaded to flickr.com by urbanblitz
In the age of bed bugs, it does not seem that wise for people around the world, in cities like Vancover and New York (pictured here) to have large group pillow fights.
Dave, a participant, is one who realized this after the fact. […]

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Jennifer Brown of The Star reports that Toronto politician Paula Fletcher is agitated about bed bugs–and trying to do something about them.
She wants the health department to investigate whether they’re a health hazard:
Toronto Councillor Paula Fletcher (Ward 30, Toronto-Danforth) has received so many calls from constituents she’s asked the health department to declare them a […]

The lead story in the “News” section of today’s New York Daily News is on bed bugs. That’s good: it’s always good to see bed bugs in the news.
It’s not a particularly helpful story, however.
For starters, there are inaccuracies. Let’s start with this caption below a photo of an adult bed bug:
Unfed […]

Social Interloper, with another San Francisco mattress and dresser scene. We can only assume there are bed bugs.

Again with the bugs, enough already by Social Interloper, on Flickr

And possible bedbuggers, in San Francisco.
Welcome to any SFist.com readers who might be feeling a bit itchy of late. You might need the FAQs, or the forums. It might be bed bugs, but we hope it’s a false alarm.

Orphanage alumni take one more trip to Coney Island
Life in a NYC orphanage in the 20s and 30s included bed bugs: “He spent his childhood in New York orphanages - writing letters to Santa that were never answered, or dragging his box spring outside to burn off the bed bugs each spring.”
(tags: inpassing bedbugs history)
BeyondChron: […]

Looks Like another bedbug clean up

Originally uploaded by Social Interloper

O’Farrell St., between Hyde and Leavonworth, San Francisco

Some exciting things are happening in California, and have been for some time. Since we’ve been giving a lot of love to Cincinnati lately, I wanted to […]

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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More Unpleasantness

Originally uploaded by Social Interloper

I discovered Social Interloper on Flickr.com was taking mattress photos. They appear to be mostly in San Francisco, and they are very impressive and disturbing from a bed bug perspective.