Category: kentucky
By nobugsonme on Mar 28, 2008 in Cincinnati Health Department, Hamilton County, bed bug task force, bed bugs, bed bugs in cincinnati, cinncinnati, kentucky, ohio, silverton | 1 Comment
Rich Jaffe reported today for Local 12 in Cincinnati that the combined city/county bed bug task force (Greater Cincinnati in Ohio, and Hamilton County, Kentucky) has released a draft report of their plan to combat bed bugs. Jaffe also reports on one Silverton, Ohio building that is infested with bed bugs, and one tenant, who moved to flee […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 1, 2008 in Bowling Green, Kentucky Housing Corporation, bed bugs, bedbugs, disabled, disabled and bed bugs, elderly, elderly and bed bugs, kentucky, low-income housing, residents' association, tenant organizing | 1 Comment
Three weeks ago, building management of Bowling Green Towers — a low-income housing building in Bowling Green, Kentucky that houses elderly and disabled tenants whose rent is subsidized by the government (via HUD) — claimed the building had only “four” units infested with bed bugs. You can read an earlier story we did on […]
By nobugsonme on Feb 5, 2008 in 1149 College St., Barren River District Health Department, Bowling Green, Bowling Green Towers, HUD, bed bugs, bedbugs, detect bed bugs, elderly and disabled, elderly and disabled housing, how to get rid of bed bugs, inspecting for bed bugs, kentucky, landlords and tenants, low-income housing, ohio, spread of bed bugs, subsidized housing | 1 Comment
Jim Gaines Reports for the Bowling Green Daily News (Bowling Green, Kentucky) that
A few of the roughly 200 residents in Bowling Green Towers at 1149 College St. have had restless nights due to a pesky problem. Several apartment-dwellers have reported an infestation of bedbugs - but health officials say trouble is being squashed before it […]
By nobugsonme on Jan 22, 2008 in Dale Mallory, Hamilton County, O'dell Owens, bed bugs, bed bugs and health, bedbugs, cincinnati, coroner, government meetings, government response to bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, indiana, kentucky, ohio, public health | 2 Comments
The Kentucky Post and WCPO (ABC9 in Cincinnati) reported that there was an “Emergency Meeting” held behind closed doors last Friday to discuss the bed bug problem in the tri-state area of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. (Indiana was not mentioned by name in any of the articles, but we can assume it’s the third […]
By nobugsonme on Jan 19, 2008 in 311 and bed bugs, Lexington, Luiz Aragon, New York Press, New York bed bug seminars, New York's response to bed bugs, Robert Jackson, Times Ledger, bed bug violations, bed bugs, bed bugs in new york, british columbia, cinncinnati, how to detect bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, hpd, kentucky, new york, new york city, new york city council, nyc, ohio, ontario, toronto, vancouver | 7 Comments
The press release for the New York HPD bed bug seminars is here. It includes dates and times, addresses, and a phone number for more information. Seminars will be in English and Spanish. Please do call the number listed below to reserve a spot.
The first seminar is scheduled to take place on […]
By nobugsonme on Jan 11, 2008 in IRS, bed bug "hitchhikers", bed bugs, bed bugs at work, bed bugs in the media, bed bugs in the workplace, bedbugs, cincinnati, covington, employees, get rid of bed bugs, kentucky, ohio | 12 Comments
The Gateway Center, a building in Covington, Ohio Kentucky where 5,000 IRS employees work, has bed bugs.
The article implies that treatments have occurred at four-week intervals:
Gateway Center officials said that after the first bug was found on the third floor in October, all floors were chemically treated.
Those treatments are scheduled on a monthly basis, officials […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 30, 2007 in 311, Lexington, activism, bed bug spread, bed bugs, bed bugs in apartments, bed bugs in colleges, bed bugs in schools, bed bugs in the media, bedbugs, california, cincinnati, department of health, government response to bed bugs, how to eliminate bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, hpd, kentucky, low-income housing, marymount manhattan college, mayor bloomberg, new york city, new york city department of education, new york daily news, nyc, nyc dohmh, nyc housing and preservation department, nycdoe, ohio, public housing, san francisco, tenants and landlords | 15 Comments
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 […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 22, 2007 in Lexington, bed bug prevention, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bed bugs and health, bedbugs, health, how to avoid bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, kentucky, news, public health | 2 Comments
Just as the Lexington-Fayette Health Department did, the State of Kentucky invites residents with bed bugs to call their Public Health Department, according to this article in the Central Kentucky News-Journal online.
Public Health Commissioner William Hacker, M.D., recommends that people who think they may have a problem with bed bugs seek advice from their local […]
By Nobugsonme on Nov 13, 2007 in Joe Fiorito, Lexington, Toronto Community Housing, affordable housing, bed bug epidemic, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bedbugs, canada, caulking, cincinnati, columbus, epidemic, erie, get rid of bed bugs, immigrants, immigrants and bed bugs, immigration, international travel, kentucky, low-income housing, ohio, ontario, pennsylvania, pesticide resistance, public housing, pyrethroid resistance, sealants, social services, spread, tenants, toronto, travel, treatment | 16 Comments
TheStar.com | Battling bedbugs is not easy: Joe Fiorito talks to Steve Floros of Toronto Community Housing:
This is a public housing official: “We have a program of unit refurbishment. We’re spending $75 million over three years to upgrade kitchens and bathrooms; we want to seal every crack so there isn’t free ability of the pests […]
By Nobugsonme on Nov 10, 2007 in Joe Fiorito, Lexington, The Star, bed bug epidemic, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bed bugs and the elderly, bedbugs, best practices, canada, education, elderly, government response to bed bugs, health, health department, homelessness, housing laws, how to kill bed bugs, journalist, journalists, kentucky, low-income housing, multi-unit buildings, ontario, pest control, public education, public health, public housing, social services, spread, toronto, treatment, treatment in institutions, usa | 0 Comments
LEX18 - Lexington, KY: Health Department Encourages Learning About Bed Bugs
“The Kentucky Department for Public Health is encouraging people to learn more about bed bugs, the small, brownish insects that feed on the blood of animals.” Paradoxically, this article contains almost no content or explanation of how they’ll do that.
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By nobugsonme on Nov 6, 2007 in All-Rite, Caveat dumpster, Fayette County, KY, Lexington, Lexington-Fayette County, Lexington-Fayette County Health Department, Westminster Village, bed bug garbage, bed bug refugees, bed bug refuse, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bedbugs, get rid of bed bugs, government, government response to bed bugs, health, health department, hotline, how to get rid of bed bugs, how to kill bed bugs, kentucky, multi-unit buildings, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, public education, public health, tenants, treatment, usa | 1 Comment
This video footage and printed excerpt from WTVQ channel 36 in Lexington, Kentucky, focuses on the story of Sakiesha Demus, a resident of the Westminster Village apartments who has bed bugs, and wants to move to another unit. Her apartment was treated by All-Rite Pest Control, who recommended that she stay put after […]
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 […]
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