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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 Nov 2, 2007 in KY, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bed bugs in schools, bedbugs, bracken county, education, kentucky, news, pest control in schools, preventive treatment, schools, signs and symptoms, treatment, treatment in institutions, treatment in schools, usa, workplace | 6 Comments
The Bracken County, Kentucky, school system’s response was to shut down all schools for one day for precautionary treatment, after a bed bug was found in a classroom, Lex18 news reported yesterday.
Bracken County schools will be closed Friday after a middle school student was found to have an infestation of bed bugs, and one of […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 5, 2007 in Halcyon House, SROs, affordable housing, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, big business, cincinnati, colorado, costs, curbside, doctors and nurses, elderly, furniture, good ideas, government, health, hospitals, hotels, ignorance, illinois, institutions, kill them now we're doomed, low-income housing, motels, multi-unit buildings, ohio, public education, public health, public housing, rage, schools, shelters, signs and symptoms, slumlords, social services, spread, tenants, tools and weapons, tossing stuff out, treatment, usa, washington, washington DC | 6 Comments
According to Channel 12 WKRC in Cincinnati (doesn’t Howard Hesseman work there?), residents at the Hillrise Apartment building, which is owned by Cincinnati Business & Professional Women’s Retirement Living Incorporated, are suffering from various issues including bed bugs.
Calvin Merritt’s problems at Hillrise Apartments are pretty simple.
“Mostly bugs, roaches and all that…”
The “all […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 2, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, government, new york, nyc, nycdoe, public education, schools, treatment, treatment in institutions, usa | 2 Comments
No huge changes here, but I thought you’d be interested to see the “Bed Bug Kits” the NYC Department of Education is providing to school employees. Remember, teachers need to hunt down a bed bug in their classroom, have it mailed off for identification, and then action will be taken.
This is the information on […]
By nobugsonme on Jul 8, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, misinformation, new york, nyc, schools, treatment, treatment in institutions, usa | 15 Comments
Angela Montefinise updated us today in The New York Post on the issue of bed bugs in the schools.
The good news:
Months after elected officials and parents complained the city was not doing enough to alert school communities about bedbug outbreaks, the Department of Education issued its first-ever policy to cope with the vermin.
Under the […]
By nobugsonme on Jun 19, 2007 in bed bug bites, bed bug feces, bed bug photos, bed bugs, bed bugs in dorms, bed bugs in hospitals, bedbugs, colleges, doctors and nurses, dorms, dust mites, england, fermanagh, fleas, health, hospitals, how to get rid of bed bugs, misinformation, northern ireland, photos of bed bugs, schools, treatment, treatment in institutions, uk | 0 Comments
In light of the story from Ireland today, I wanted to check in on England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and so I looked through the BBC’s coverage of bed bugs over the past year.
On August 17th, 2006 the BBC reported that a residence for doctors and nurses in a hospital in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, […]
By nobugsonme on May 18, 2007 in Queens, bed bugs, bedbugs, new york, news, nyc, schools, usa | 7 Comments
Small, local newspapers sometimes know their stuff better than some of the larger papers. The Forest Hills Times-Ledger (in Forest Hills, which is a neighborhood in Queens, NYC) just covered the Gianaris bill, successful in the NYS legislature and headed for the NYS senate.
But what caught my eye was this:
The insect, which dwells […]
By jessinchicago on May 9, 2007 in Queens, Tipping Point, activism, bed bugs, bedbugs, chinches de cama, government, new york, new york state assembly, new york state senate, news, nyc, schools | 18 Comments
Great news, folks. I just received a press release from Assemblyman Gianaris’ office- thanks Maggie!- announcing the passage in the Assembly of the crucial and groundbreaking legislation that will require NYC schools to notify parents of bedbug infestations. The bill was introduced by Gianaris after the Department of Education’s Office of School Health […]
By nobugsonme on Apr 25, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, government, institutions, new york, news, schools, spread, treatment in institutions, usa, workplace | 3 Comments
The Queens Gazette reports today that Assembly Member Gianaris’s bed bug legislation is out of the Assembly Education Committee, and thus closer to being in effect. This is a follow-up on an issue we’ve been following for a long time.
Legislation by Assemblymember Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) requiring notice of bedbug infestations to all parents at […]
By nobugsonme on Apr 2, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, government, misinformation, new york, news, rage, schools, signs and symptoms, spread, treatment in institutions, usa | 8 Comments
We’re now officially told that:
Reports of the nasty critters skyrocketed from 34 cases at 24 public schools in October and November to 72 cases at 43 schools in January and February, according to the Department of Education.
And despite the surge in the creepy-crawlers, the school system continues to resist calls to inform all parents in […]
By nobugsonme on Feb 15, 2007 in Queens, activism, bed bugs, bedbugs, government, new york, news, schools, treatment in institutions, usa | 9 Comments
The New York Daily News had an update today on Bedbugs in Astoria, NYC schools and NYC schools in general.
I guess the NYCDoE doesn’t read Bedbugger. Because we keep telling them that if you see bed bugs on a person or their stuff, it does not mean the bedbugs rode in off the street […]
By nobugsonme on Feb 5, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, government, health, new york, reader questions, schools, treatment in institutions, usa | 6 Comments
by Nobugsonme
Ellie posted a question on one of the FAQs, which will probably get more feedback here.
Ellie Engler, Feb 5th 2007 at 8:53 am
The United Federation of Teachers represents more than 100,000 staff working in more than 1400 buildings where there are more than 1.2 million students in school We have received many reports of […]
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