Posted on 05/31/2010 10:21:14 AM PDT by JoeProBono
At first May thought that her husband had heat rash. “We were staying at a smart hotel in Cape Cod. Then I developed these hive-like welts on my back and legs.” May (not her real name; she is terrified of giving me that) is middle class, in her late fifties and lives on the Upper West Side, New York, in a well-maintained four-room apartment. When she and her husband returned to the city, one doctor prescribed antihistamines, surmising the couple had reacted to shellfish. She called a dermatologist. “He took one look and said, ‘You both have bedbug bites’. My husband turned our mattress over and we saw them. That’s when — no joke, no exaggeration, however ridiculous it may sound — our nightmare began.” The infestation would last five months and cost May and her husband $15,000 (£10,200) to treat.
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I hear it started over at Bill Clinton’s pad in Harlem. Then it spread from there.
Our beautiful geologist/scientist daughter stayed at a hotel in Texas City, Texas while on work detail in the area. She got bedbugs. She said it was HORRIBLE!
Oh, great. Now I’m completely freaked out.
Looks like Gene Simmons
“I hear it started over at Bill Clinton’s pad in Harlem.”
I think that are confusing crabs and bedbugs.
Well, when your government refuses to control the borders, expect alot of creepy crud to find its way to American cities.
Bed bugs are the least of our worries. One of the upscale conmunites near here has a case of TB. We’ve seen reports of a possible polio resurgence.
People sneaking into the US from impoverished country often bring diseases with them that we had eradicated.
One of the consequences of importing cheap labor from the third world.
Another reason to buy an RV and avoid hotels...
It used to be a standard thing, when moving in the city, to do it in the winter and leave everything outside in the cold for a few days to kill all the assorted critters.
Y'know, some people just deserve to get bedbugs.
PM the name so I can avoid. sometimes I travel to TC.
If you heat up the inside of your residence to 120 degrees F for an hour that’ll get rid of ‘em!
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LOL
Since they are attracted by heat and CO2, I don’t see why a trap can’t be invented. Also, I’ve read that they can live much longer than 2 months without a meal—some sources say up to a year. That is part of the problem in hotels: they leave a room empty to let the bugs die, but not long enough.
that is exactly why we own one, I refuse to sleep on somebody else’s pillows and use their towels
They need to use a robot and periodically irradiate the rooms.
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