Bedbugs crawl way into posh suburbs (MSM admits bedbugs arrived in U.S. on backs of illegal aliens!)

The Boston Herald ^ | 2010-08-25 | Christine McConville

[rabscuttle385]

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The tiny, reddish-brown parasites, which live on warm human blood, were once nearly extinct.

But thanks to a growing resistance to pesticides, and an increasingly mobile human population, they’ve had a resurgence since the mid-1990s.

For years, they’ve been enjoying city life, crawling out at night from all sorts of mattresses to feed.

The difference now, exterminators said, is they’ve made sizable inroads into suburbia.

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In the past decade, most urban-dwelling bedbugs arrived on the backs of roaming college students or migrant workers from South and Central America.

Once they settle and mate, their offspring will eventually set off in search of new blood, often traveling along cozy apartment walls and cushioned subway seats.

But these days, Joe Giambarresi of Security Pest Elimination said he’s been getting calls from exclusive suburbs, too.

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[Oshkalaboomboom]

Your headline is pretty deceiving. The Herald is the conservative Boston paper. The Globe is the liberal one and it hasn’t admitted anything of the sort.

[FrdmLvr]

Saw that recently on FOX. Pretty shocking because that’s a particularly nasty third world disease.

[livius]

Actually, they probably arrived with well-heeled European and ME tourists, because there certainly aren’t any migrant workers staying at most of the places where there have been bedbug problems.

However that may be, the reason for the surge in bedbugs is that the only thing that is effective against them is DDT, and we refuse to use it. One of the papers in New York admitted that this morning. Maybe there’s a little common sense breaking out? Not that such a thing as common sense would convince us to go back to the use of DDT. So I guess we just have to settle down a become more like the Third World that Obama holds out as a model.

[Samogon]

Once they settle and mate, their offspring will eventually set off in search of new blood...

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Was it about illegals or bedbugs??

[Citizen Tom Paine]

But don’t evere consider DDT to get rid of them. DDT is Bad!

[popdonnelly]

What’s the Mexican word for bedbug?

[massgopguy]

There is a certain mattress company we refer to as the Bed Bug Delivery Van. They have the used mattresses in the same van with the new ones.

[firebrand]

A NYC City Council member has advised people not to sit on wooden benches. The benches are all up and down the Broadway mall (the wide divider of Broadway that begins at around 60th Street) and are frequented by the homeless and residents of the SROs.

[VOA]

“
Bedbugs crawl way into posh suburbs (MSM admits bedbugs arrived
in U.S. on backs of illegal aliens!)
“

Yep. Occasionally the MSM actually prints the truth.
I suspect it only happens when the senior editors have over-done
booze/drugs.
Or perhaps they are on their lenghty August vacations.

[almost done by half]

The potential for these things to transmit is endless. Perhaps we should all be wearing flea collars if they
even work on these bugs.

[Hulka]

And let's not forget TB and other dangerous and filthy sicknesses they bring with them. . .they do not inoculate, vaccinate. . .they are disease factories.

Roaming college students. . bah. . .college students have been roaming for decades and decades and this was never a problem before.

[momtothree]

“What’s the difference between a bedbug and a congressman?”

Bedbugs only suck your blood at night and congressmen are quite happy sucking your blood 24/7. Just a thought

[sportutegrl]

What's the difference between a bedbug and a congressman?

DDT is harmful to bedbugs.

[King_Corey]

Time Magazine
Science: Homemade DDT
Monday, Aug. 06, 1945

Many a civilian would give red points to get his hands on a little DDT, the Army’s high-priority insecticide. Recently citizens of Media and Swarthmore, Philadelphia suburbs, were astonished: two of the towns’ hardware stores offered bottles of DDT for sale across the open counter. The solution was just right for killing flies and mosquitoes. The stores did a land-office business at $1 per pint. Then WPB heard about it and asked grimly: where did the stuff come from?

The answer: a Swarthmore chemist named Walter Steuber (of Houdry Process Corp.) had decided that the easiest way to get DDT was to make it himself. He was turning it out by the gallon in his cellar. Said Steuber: any competent chemist can figure out the formula and make DDT out of non-priority materials. The ingredients are: chloral hydrate (better known as “Mickey Finn”), monochlor benzine, and concentrated sulfuric acid.

WPB solemnly ruled: “Anybody can make DDT, provided he uses non-priority materials or materials for which he has obtained a priority rating. But you can’t sell it except for military or experimental purposes.”

Last week, as a result of Steuber’s enterprise, WPB suddenly changed its mind. Beginning this month, it announced, regular manufacturers will be allowed to sell limited supplies of DDT to civilians, manufacturers producing less than 1,000 lbs. weekly may sell their product to anyone they choose.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,803716,00.html#ixzz0xebmKAUZ