Woman says she suffered bed bug bites at Bally’s in Atlantic City
Fox 29 Philadelphia reports Gail Edmond claims she suffered from bed bug bites on her arm, wrist, finger, and stomach, while staying at Bally’s Resort and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Edmond...
View ArticleNew York Mayor Bloomberg signs Bed Bug Advisory Board legislation
Excellent news! This is the New York City Council’s press release containing Mayor Bloomberg’s remarks on Int. 57a, which he signed yesterday: MAYOR BLOOMBERG SIGNS LEGISLATION TO ESTABLISH A BED BUG...
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Man on #2 train with bed bugs: bed bug hysteria? Or fact?
Paolo Mastrangelo of NYC the Blog reported yesterday that his roommate Aaron had a close encounter of the bed bug kind on the #2 train in New York City: It seems the bedbug epidemic that has been...
View ArticleHarrisburg’s Channel 21 News: afraid to say “bed bugs”?
I was highly perplexed to watch this two-day report from CBS 21 News in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Yesterday, Ewa Roman reported on a “Bug Infested Building” in a boardinghouse over the Tara Station bar...
View ArticleNorth Carolina shelter with bed bugs: outlook grim
Guests of a Salvation Army shelter in Wilmington, North Carolina, are suffering from bed bug bites. And the shelter managers are having trouble getting rid of the problem. Eleven-year-old Edwin...
View ArticleNew York City Housing Authority: “bed bugs = emergency” + “wait a month” do...
Eyewitness News (ABC 7) in New York reports that residents of the Walt Whitman Houses in Fort Greene, Brooklyn are suffering with bed bugs — and yet the New York City Housing Authority is giving them...
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Pest Control Technology’s Aug. 2009 bed bug supplement
Check out the new “Bed Bug Supplement” in August’s PCT: Bed Bugs: A Market Opportunity, Pest Control Technology Magazine – August 2009. I know: the title grates on us. It’s hard to think of your itchy,...
View ArticleLatest research on bed bug bites says most do react
Bed bug bites are one of the murkiest areas when it comes to our knowledge of bed bugs: who reacts, when, and how? The latest research says most people do react to bed bug bites. The February 2010...
View ArticleBed bug bites may make hospital patients more vulnerable to MRSA
[This post refers to a Crain's New York story which we now know contains inaccurate quotes. Please see corrections in the Update below.] This is scary not quite as scary as the article implies: Cornell...
View ArticleBed bugs bite at the 78th Precinct in Brooklyn
It’s not the first time bed bugs have taken up residence in a New York City police precinct or lockup. Now the 78th Precinct in Brooklyn is “Bedbugged” according to the New York Post, which reports the...
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