Posted on 07/28/2010 4:12:22 PM PDT by PROCON
NEW YORK (AP) - One of every 15 New Yorkers battled bedbugs last year, officials said Wednesday as they announced a plan to fight the spreading infestation, including a public-awareness campaign and a top entomologist to head the effort. The bloodsucking pests, which are not known to spread disease but can cause great mental anguish with their persistent and fast-growing infestations, have rapidly multiplied throughout New York and many other U.S. cities in recent years.
Health officials and pest control specialists nationwide report surges in sightings, bites and complaints. The Environmental Protection Agency hosted its first-ever bedbug summit last year.
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I'm shocked that globalwarming wasn't to blame!
Bring back DDT
In a surprise development, on July 28 the New York City Council and Mayor’s office released the report of the New York City Bed Bug Advisory Board and announced the funding of certain educational components of the board’s recommendations. We at New York vs Bed Bugs are extremely relieved — and hopeful. To be updated. For now, you can download the report: New York City Bed Bug Advisory Report (April 2010).
Well, it’s way past time the government tackled this problem. After all, they are supposed to be taking care of us from the cradle to the grave!!
I’m more concerned about the White House infestation......
The best thing these idiots could think of was to ban the sales of used mattresses.
Bringing back DDT and stopping the flow of unchecked illegal aliens over the border would be a much better start, but that’s a lot to hope for from these guys.
Exactly!!!
Bush’s fault
Send that turkey Bloomberg to every home for an inspection and fumigation.
It's working on NYC.
To many, DDT is in the same category as napalm, cluster munitions, and nuclear power.
You are right, however, never assume the slimes in DC that are turning this country into another USSR have any common sense.
This is awful for tennants and a no-win for the landlords. The landlord my daughters had was an asshole but even good ones have to spend thousands and another tennant can bring bed bugs back in.
In our daughter's new place in Manhattan, we put Ditomecius (sp) Earth around the baseboards. When the exterminator visited he said that was a good a preventative measure as we could take. As good as anything he had to offer.
Some students from Rutgers came up with a mechanism to spoof bed bugs. Dry ice in a can mounted inside a dog dish. The inside of the dog dish is greased so the bugs can't climb out. As the dry ice vaporizes, it emits CO2 and the bed bugs think it's a human breathing. Come to think of it, Sex Poodle Gore and friends would probably object to using frozen CO2.
My solution? Bed bugs can't survive freezing temperatures. During a freezing cold snap every building in Queens should open all the windows and let the temps plummet (turn the water on a drip so the pipes don't freeze). Two days of that and they'd all be dead.
You can also take a trip to Mexico and bring back some DDT in a souvenir tequila bottle. Ahem.
Your kid still has bed bugs. We all do. I’m glad you feel better.
I gather they are talking about democrats! ;-)
AND: the sale of refurbished mattresses. One of my tenents purchased a "NEW" mattress at BIG LOTS. It was not NEW it was a refurbished one, and it was full of bedbugs.
Took days to find the source, remove and return that mattress, then days more to exterminate them from the house.
In case no one knows. "BIG LOTS" is nothing more than a step up from a GOODWILL store, lol
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