Syracuse woman says bedbugs ruining her life

Syracuse Media ^ | April 01, 2015 | Tim Knauss

[george76]

Friends no longer visit Kafi Ahmad's small apartment in Syracuse. Her home health aide stopped coming. And the maddening insect bites persist.

Ahmad, 63, said she has "no life'' since bedbugs infested her high-rise apartment in December. She has endured welts from swollen insect bites all over her body.

After 14 years in her apartment, Ahmad fled to a homeless shelter for three nights in February to escape the bedbugs.

The insects "bite me and pinch me,'' she said. "My life no good.''

Bedbugs, which started attracting notice in Syracuse a decade ago, are not known to carry disease but torment their victims with bites and can be difficult to get rid of, local experts say.

Ahmad, who lives in the high-rise Toomey Abbott Towers, a public housing complex operated by the Syracuse Housing Authority

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Ahmad, an American citizen who fled her native Iraq in 1999, said she limits her contact with other people for fear of passing her bedbugs to them.

[tinyowl]

Now she knows how all conservatives in America feel.

[forgotten man]

Bedbugs were eradicated in this country in the early 20th century. Now there is a pandemic of bedbugs.

[Veggie Todd]

"My life no good."

Well, maybe you should have stayed in Iraq instead of coming here to become a burden on American taxpayers.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Which Xeno language do these bedbugs understand?

[Vendome]

I think I see the problem:

Yer name is “Kafi Ahmad” and yo engrish ain’t so great.

R.I.D., Bleach, Soap, Lemon Oil, Borax...fine tooth comb...

[Joe 6-pack]

The assassin bug is a natural predator of bed bugs. The only problem is that once they get rid of the bedbugs, you have to find some way to get rid of the assassin bugs...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Nothing a little DDT wouldn’t cure!

Oh wait!

[Farmer Dean]

Bayer makes a product called Tempo Ultra.It absolutely annihilates insects.

[MeshugeMikey]

High time for a BUG JIHAD!

[RetiredTexasVet]

“Friends no longer visit Kafi Ahmad’s small apartment in Syracuse. ....”

Wonder if she has a rider in her lease for pets?

[montag813]

Heat the room to 140 degrees for 20 minutes. Kills them all including eggs. Also can put dishes with diatomaceous earth in them...cloth on outside to help them in, slippery on inside to trap them. The earth slices open their exoskeleton, leading to rapid dehydration death.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

This is what we have to look ‘FORWARD’ to when the Progressive Socialist Communists have their way and have us all living like rats in cages in high-rise apartments in the city.

Oh, Joy! Oh, Happiness!

If I should live so long, I’ll be the first one jumping off the roof!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“...you have to find some way to get rid of the assassin bugs...”

Can’t the cockroaches keep them in check? ;)

[terycarl]

Bedbugs were eradicated in this country in the early 20th century. Now there is a pandemic of bedbugs.

can anyone spell....D.D.T. ????

[PAR35]

I feel a bit sorry for the folks who have to use the shelter - now they’ve probably gotten bed bugs, as well.

[JimSEA]

A little shot of DDT, all is good.

[driftdiver]

Bed bugs not lice. But yer smart

[Vendome]

[sickoflibs]

RE:”The extermination process also requires good communication between landlord and tenant, Sherman said. Mattresses must be discarded or sheathed in plastic for a year. Clothing and linens must be bagged in plastic, and any contaminated clothes must be washed in hot water. Sometimes, the process drags on, Sherman said.
“I know of cases where we're talking four or five treatments until they could get rid of them,” Sherman said. “

Stay away from public housing or low rent apartments .

Bed bugs know how to stay around.,