By nobugsonme on Mar 10, 2008 in Joe Fiorito, Paula Fletcher, Toronto Public Health, bed bug statistics, bed bugs, bed bugs and health, bedbugs, canada, disabled, dr. david mckeown, elderly, homeless, low-income, new york and bed bugs, nyc, ontario, public health, shelters, statistics on bed bugs, toronto, toronto board of health, toronto medical officer of health | 12 Comments
A bit of background:
Toronto has had a serious bed bug problem for some time, just like New York, London, San Francisco, Vancouver–I could go on and on, but you get the idea.
The Toronto Star also has a journalist called Joe Fiorito who wrote extensively and repeatedly about how serious a problem bed bugs were, […]
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 14, 2007 in apartments, bed bugs, bedbugs, homelessness, multi-unit buildings, new jersey, north carolina, shelters, spread, treatment, treatment in institutions, usa | 2 Comments
Some days, there’s so much bedbug news, I can’t keep up.
First, this item from NJ.com about an infested building South Jersey (Jamestown Square in Blackwood, NJ) makes me wonder: what if there was a newspaper item for every single infested building in New York?!? The New York Times would have to use a […]
content rss