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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 Nov 13, 2007 in activism, bed bug epidemic, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, bombs, craigslist, curbside, dr. louis sorkin, education, entomologists, furniture, get rid of bed bugs, good ideas, government, government response to bed bugs, greenpoint, health, health department, history, how to get rid of bed bugs, media, multi-unit buildings, new york, new york magazine, news, nyc, pest control, prevention, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, public education, public health, secondhand, signs and symptoms, treatment, usa, used furniture | 6 Comments
New York Magazine has a new bed bug story dated November 12th (print edition of 11/19), by Melissa Kirsch.
It contains lots of solid advice about not picking up curbside furniture, being wary of Craigslist finds, and searching for fecal spots and blood stains. But it also contains some advice we don’t normally […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 6, 2007 in Caveat Craigslist, Caveat dumpster, Freecycle, Green, Grist.org, Meredith Viera, Today Show, bed bug epidemic, bed bug garbage, bed bug refuse, bed bugs, bedbugs, consumer, consumer warning, craigslist, curbside, furnishing bedbug-free homes, mattresses, new york, nyc, secondhand, spread, tossing stuff out, tossing things out, used furniture | 8 Comments
On the Today show this morning, Katie Couric Meredith Viera said, “You can’t live in New York without finding old mattresses and TVs along the curbside because people don’t know what else to do with them. But there is someone who will take them.”
Her interviewee, Chip Giller of Grist.org, suggested going to Craigslist or […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 9, 2007 in EMTS, Rentokil, bed bugs, bedbugs, cincinnati, curbside, england, firefighters, furniture, hospitals, journalist, laundry, london, mattresses, northern ireland, ohio, police, scotland, spread, tips, tossing stuff out, treatment, uk, usa, used furniture, wales, workplace | 1 Comment
Monday’s Daily Telegraph featured a long article on bed bugs in the UK. Overall it was a typical story of the spread of bed bugs in Britain, and coming as it does from a well-respected source, it is a good thing. I was, however, disappointed in some of the information provided.
First, the journalist […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 7, 2007 in Tipping Point, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, cincinnati, curbside, dumpster diving, flea market, furniture, good ideas, government, health, history, hotels, housing laws, mattresses, motels, new york, nyc, ohio, prevention, public education, public health, secondhand, spread, stories, tenants, usa, used furniture | 3 Comments
We’ve been following the bed bug situation in Cincinnati for a while.
Yesterday, Joe Wessels of the Cincinnati Post reported that city officials were forming a commission to fight the problem:
The Bedbug Remediation Commission, a five-member panel of local health, social service and elected leaders, is in the process of forming and will try […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 16, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, curbside, dumpster diving, nyc, used furniture | 5 Comments
bed bugs
Originally uploaded by silverakshi
I previously blogged the same bed bug-infested curbside furniture from another angle, and another photographer.
But I loved this shot. As if someone was trying to warn the aliens not to land on McKibben Street, in Brooklyn.
Please, everyone: label your bed […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 1, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, ozone, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, treatment, treatment: single-family, used furniture | 3 Comments
This is interesting: the St. Charles woman whose flea market nightstand left her bedbugged? She did not use Vikane or thermal treatments to clear her bed bugs, as we’d speculated. The $3000 treatment was a new one: ozone, piped into her home. According to the Beacon News, a Chicago Suburban […]
By nobugsonme on Jul 31, 2007 in activism, bed bugs, bedbugs, cincinnati, news, ohio, social services, usa, used furniture | 2 Comments
Cincinnati’s ABC9 did a spot on bed bugs Monday, and you can click the link in the top right corner of this page to watch it.
It focuses on two stories: the St. Vincent De Paul Society, a social service agency, reports on the prevalence of bed bugs, how thoroughly they alter peoples’ lives, and […]
By nobugsonme on Jul 13, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, flea market, fun, furniture, secondhand, used furniture | 2 Comments
We’ve talked in the past about the continued use of bed bugs in children’s television, videos and toys, and store names–all places where people would never want to conjure up images and sensations associated with real bed bugs. It’s a sign, of course, that everyone doesn’t yet get how nasty they are, yet.
Here’s […]
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