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!
One of the consequences of importing cheap labor from the third world.
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.
PM the name so I can avoid. sometimes I travel to TC.
I brought my bedbugs home from the ONLY hotel in the Red River Gorge area, right here in Kentucky.
Luckily, in the midst of eradicating them we went on vacation (Very Carefully!). While we were gone we had a heat wave, a squirrel chewed on the powerline near the house and our electricity went out.
We lost a freezer full of meat, but I think the heat helped some.
MOST people do not react to bedbug bites. That makes it harder to know you have them and much easier to spread.