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Harvard dorm treated for scabies–but what was it really? Also, bed bugs at Columbia? »

By nobugsonme on Oct 26, 2007 in "bites", bed bugs, bedbugs, boston, cambridge, colleges, columbia, diagnosis, dorms, dr. michael alpert, entomologists, harvard, itchy, ivy league, massachusetts, mites, mosquitoes, mystery, new york, nyc, rashes, scabies, usa | 6 Comments

Ivy League gossip blog the IvyGate explained this week that the supposed scabies outbreak that forced everyone in the Pennypacker Harvard freshman dorm to be treated for scabies with a full-body pyrethrin cream application (not to mention making them all undergo the extensive laundering and calling-of-romantic-partners that condition requires), is now thought not to have […]

Bed bugs taking over Ireland, too »

By nobugsonme on Jun 19, 2007 in bed bug bites, bed bugs, bedbugs, health, ireland, scabies, spread | 2 Comments

This, from a major national Irish paper, sounds familiar.
Bedbugs are back . . . in swarming numbers
Monday June 18 2007, The Irish Independent
INFESTATIONS of bedbugs are on the rise throughout Ireland due to the rapid growth in foreign travel and rising temperatures.
As the unwelcome guests return in droves, pest-controllers are called to hotels, family homes, […]