Category: ohio
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 3, 2008 in OH, bed bug epidemic, bed bugs, bedbugs, cincinnati, dayton, garbage, health departments, hotels, how to avoid bed bugs, mattresses, middletown, ohio, public health, spread of bed bugs, used furniture | 0 Comments
According to the Dayton Daily News, you can get bed bugs from all kinds of sources: 4-star hotels, college dorms, from your neighbors via pipes running from apartment to apartment, and from used furniture. When you’re thinking about how to avoid bed bugs, you have to realize it’s not just about you: your neighbors […]
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 Jan 10, 2008 in affordable housing, bed bug spread, bed bug treatment, cincinnati, cincinnati department of public health, city policies, elderly, eliminate bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, joyce jones, laundry, low-income housing, northern kentucky, ohio, puclic health, senior apartments, seniors, smuel blackmon, stanley rowe | 2 Comments
Cincinnati held a meeting yesterday about bed bugs. Channel 9 (ABC) said yesterday:
The Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority will show the Health, Environment and Education Committee a presentation on the pests.
Officials said bed bugs are a big problem in the city’s public housing, which is overseen by the Housing Authority.
According to Channel 12, Cincinnati politicians […]
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 Dec 12, 2007 in Brunswick, Jekyll Island, Sea Island, St. Simons Island, WLWT, apartmentratings.com, apartments, avoid bed bugs, bed bug registry, bed bug video, bed bugs, bed bugs in apartments, bed bugs in multi-unit dwellings, bedbugs, channel5, cincinnati, georgia, get rid of bed bugs, golden isles, infestation, landlords, media, news, ohio, real estate, real estate broker, spread, tenant.net, tenants, who pays for bed bug treatment, youtuube | 2 Comments
Apartmentratings.com is a way to check what other tenants are saying about your building. It is not widely used, but like anything else, can be another tool, along with the bedbugregistry.com. Don’t forget to leave your review and warn others. There are 623 posts today featuring “bed bugs.” Don’t forget to search […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 12, 2007 in WLWT, bed bugs, bedbugs, channel 5, cincinnati, elderly, elderly housing, massive infestation, multi-unit, ohio, senior, stanley row, videos of bed bugs | 2 Comments
This video aired on WLWT Channel 5 in Cincinnati, back in October 2007. We covered the story when it ofirst appeared, but I don’t recall this video airing properly, and indeed, it still does not on the WLWT site. It’s worth seeing.
If your multi-unit building landlord, co-op association, condo board, YWCA manager, elderly […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 10, 2007 in YWCA, art, australia, backpackers, bargara, bed bug blogging, bedbugs, cincinnati, culture, domestic abuse, domestic violence shelter, emergency, epidemic, exhibit, exhibition, homeless shelter, hostel, infestation, london, medical, ohio, popular culture, porkopolis. bed bug spread, possum feces, queensland, shelter, sleep, travel, travelblog, wellcome centre, women | 2 Comments
Londonist: Sleeping And Dreaming: The Wellcome Collection (exhibit on sleep includes bed bugs)
“This is an all-embracing examination of our need to sleep. . . . The very practical logistics of sleeping are also tackled: bedbugs and the luxury of a bed to oneself.” Bed bugs figure in exhibit on sleep at medical-themed-art centre in […]
By Nobugsonme on Nov 16, 2007 in Chagas' disease, Q fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, anthrax, bed bugs, bedbugs, boutonneuse fever, brown county, brucellosis, encephalomyelitis, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, epidemic jaundice (Brazzaville), epidemic typhus, exanthematous typhus, health, health department, health risks, hotel bed bugs, hotels, infectious disease, influenza, leprosy, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, macthrift motor inn, malaria, mansonelliasis, motels, oceanfront, ohio, onchocerciasis, oriental sore, paratyphoid fever, plague, pneumococcal pneumonia, poliomyelitis, public health, relapsing fever, sleeping sickness, smallpox, spread, staphylococcal septicemia, time, travel, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid fever, usa, virginia, virginia beach, virginia beach health department, yellow fever | 0 Comments
WAVY TV 10 - Bed bugs invade another oceanfront motel (in Virginia Beach, VA)
“Bed bugs invade another oceanfront motel. This time the health department forced the MacThrift Motor Inn on 22nd street to close off some of its rooms because of the pesky little critters.” Five rooms, to be exact.
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