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Bed bugs: “No one knows the true extent of the problem.” »

By hopelessnomo on Jan 9, 2008 in 1980s, Fiona King, Institute of Environmental Health Officers, bed bug epidemic, bed bug history, bed bugs, bed bugs in the UK, bedbugs, britain, clive boase, dr. j. k. anand, dr. janice bates, dr. john paul, environmental health, health, history, how to get rid of bed bugs, new scientist, public health, resurgence, robert usinger, spread, uk, united kingdom, why did bed bugs come back | 9 Comments

The bedbug resurgence in the developed world. We know the story, don’t we?
Virtually eradicated. DDT. International travel. Baseboards. Yadda, yadda.
No. Not at all. Not yadda yadda.
Let’s consider the bedbug resurgence in one developed country.
In October of 1999 the BBC reported the “return of the bed bug” […]

National geographic on bedbugs / This Is London on bedbugs »

By nobugsonme on Oct 20, 2006 in bed bugs, bedbugs, california, england, health, lawrence pong, london, multi-unit buildings, national geographic, news, san francisco, san francisco health department, travel, treatment in hotels, uk, united kingdom, usa, videos of bed bugs | 0 Comments

New article and video from National Geographic today. This is one of the more scientific videos we’ve seen, and true to National Geographic’s style, includes footage of “traumatic insemination” (the nasty bedbug’s form of procreation), as well as eerie footage of bedbugs crawling on a person in bed, in the dark.
Also footage of Lawrence […]