Jan 28 2009
Source: Your Local Guardian (UK)
A Morden family claim the council is letting the bed bugs bite, and doing nothing to remove an infestation of the pests from their local authority-owned home.
Within hours of moving into their new house in Abberconway Road, Joanna Lois and her two children, felt the insects attack and were forced to [...]
Jan 28 2009
Source: Vancouver Courier
To the editor:
Re: “Councillor eyes vacant social housing complex,” Jan. 21.
There are 14 tenants left who have opportunities no tenants in the private market would have.
Chances to pick where they want to live, money to help them move, and even time to move. Words of glory to any private market renter forced to [...]
Jan 26 2009
Source: Cincinnati.com
BOND HILL – The unfortunate combination of a cigarette and a homemade chemical solution to kill bedbugs started a house fire late Sunday that displaced two adults and an infant, Cincinnati fire officials said.
A woman treated a second-story bedroom for bedbugs at a home in the 7300 block of Scottwood Avenue about 10:30 p.m., [...]
Jan 23 2009
Source: DailyGlobe.com
WORTHINGTON — Two more cases of bedbug infestations have been reported to Nobles-Rock Community Health Services in the last week, bringing the total number of investigations to four.
Jason Kloss, NRCHS Sanitarian, said the two new cases involve a unit in a local apartment complex, as well as a residential rental home. The first two [...]
Jan 22 2009
Source: GlobalTV.com
An Edmonton woman who took part in an overnight sleep study awoke to find herself covered in bedbug bites.
Dawn Blue’s constant exhaustion prompted her doctor to refer her to the sleep disorder clinic at Edmonton General Hospital. It is overseen by Alberta Health Services, formerly Capital Health.
During the night, said Blue, a distraught technician [...]
Jan 20 2009
Source: The Korea Times
Bedbugs were found in Korea for the first time in 20 years, and experts suspect they came from the United States.
A Yonsei University research team led by professor Yong Tai-soon of the Medical College’s parasitology department said Sunday that it confirmed an insect, which a 30-year-old woman caught in her room and [...]
Jan 08 2009
Source: Physorg.com
Bed bugs, once nearly eradicated in the built environment, have made a big comeback recently, especially in urban centers such as New York City. In the first study to explain the failure to control certain bed bug populations, toxicologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Korea’s Seoul National University show that some [...]
Jan 07 2009
Source: CKNYam920.com
Bedbugs have found their way to Owen Sound.
Medical Officer of Health Doctor Hazel Lynn says they’re getting several complaints a month.
She says many apartment buildings are infested as well as some Grey County owned homes.
Doctor Lynn says bedbugs aren’t specifically a health hazard, but a big nuisance.
She says thorough cleaning and vacuuming can get [...]
Jan 04 2009
Source: WTNC.org
NEW YORK, NY January 04, 2009 —Advocates calling on the city to wage war against bedbugs hope 2009 will be the year they get legislative – and dermatologic – relief. WNYC’s Fred Mogul has more.
REPORTER: Late last year, 14 city council members released a bill calling on the City Health Department to create a [...]
Jan 03 2009
Source: LA Times
Reporting from Cincinnati — In this Ohio city, it seems, it really is tough to stop the bedbugs from biting.
When complaints about the bloodsucking insects first trickled in to Cincinnati’s public health department three years ago, officials assumed it was an anomaly — or perhaps the overactive imagination of a bug-phobic public. [...]