Passengers complain of bedbugs on flights out of Newark airport

Fox5 NY ^ | July 20, 2018

[EdnaMode]

- Passengers on flights from Newark Liberty International Airport to India are complaining about bed bug infested seats.

In one case this week a family complained their infant was covered in bites and bleeding by the time the 17-hour flight landed in Mumbia.

Pravin Tonsekar tweeted Air India photos of his seat with apparent bed bugs on them.

Air India replied with a comment that it is: "sorry to hear this. Sharing the details with our maintenance team for corrective measures in this regard."

Another passenger tweeted to the airline that his family few out of Newark on July 18 and his wife and three children were covered in bed ug bites all over their body. He asked, "Is this what we paid $10,000 for???"

[Deaf Smith]

Temprid SC relabled as Temprid FX is very effective as a contact and residual.

Working with Bayer Rep about one lot number that is less effective.

Switched to a different lot # and will report results to Bayerin about 10 days.

[jmacusa]

My problem is procrastination. I was going to join a self help group about it but I kept putting it off.

[riri]

Repackaged as Diatomaceous Earth it hides in plain sight in the tool shed.

Really? Id it the same thing? People use that here all the time to fight scorpions.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The Times of India article you cited seems to be about the same flight as the one mentioned in the article for this thread. Here's one about bedbugs on a British Airways flight from Vancouver to London. And here's an article about cities in the US with bedbug issues. As we've banned effective pesticides due to environmentalist hysteria, we're seeing a huge resurgence in insect pests our great-grandparents thought were problems of the past.

[Duke of Qin]

You are a victim of the anglophone Indian elites greatest modern achievement, fooling the West that India is somehow brimming with talent. India is more or less a democracy in all the major areas where Washington deems democratic legitimacy lies and democracies get the governments people want/deserve. Unlike China, where the Communist Party seized power at gun point aided by Soviet/Comintern support and taking advantage of a nation exhausted by 8 years of war with Japan, Indians got a government more or less peaceably elected by Indians that keeps on being elected by Indians to this day.

Average IQ’s in India are lower than Malaysia. The PISA test administered to 15 year olds is not a subject matter (i.e. no asking about particulate dates or facts) but rather evaluates logic and higher order thinking and is the closest thing to a universal globally applicable IQ test. Indian scores when they took it, and promptly decided to not take again, were mediocre and ended up 2nd to last (72-73 out of 74).

Now keep in mind that most of the participating countries were OECD countries and thus, not Sh*tholes, so all of black Africa and most of the middle east weren’t represented but the only country India managed to edge out of the participants was Kyrgyzstan.

Indian student scores on reading comprehension, arithmetic, and science topped out in the 350’s range. This was significantly lower than Malaysia which managed a respectable 410 and more in line with some of the poorer countries of Latin America. Keep in mind that the base line score is a 500 which is standardized around a White European student from the post-industrial West.

What most superficial observers of India do not understand is that it is the ur-multicultural / multiracial civilization and that two thousand years of religiously sanctified caste endogamy has shattered the society of India into a myriad of competing micro races, which is why India along side South Africa and Latin America stands as one of the most unequal places on earth. Extrapolating Indian performance from the miniscule socio-economic elite jati networks that finds their way to the West is a fool’s game that Indian’s aren’t particularly interested in disabusing any time soon.

[Fred Hayek]

Was there an earlier time when the Indian independence proponents were more business types, merchants, more open to a market economy rather than socialistic?

[Zhang Fei]

[Was there an earlier time when the Indian independence proponents were more business types, merchants, more open to a market economy rather than socialistic?]

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I have no doubt there were plenty of business backers for pro-independence politicians. As with aspiring ruling cliques everywhere, they would have been promised all kinds of things (i.e. special treatment in the form of monopolies) after the demise of the ancien regime. A pro market economy businessman doesn’t care about the skin color or creed of the people in charge, and would probably have seen British rule as fairly good, given all the infrastructure improvements during their rule, vs a past where Indian rulers mainly constructed monuments to their own vanity (e.g. the Taj Mahal and any number of white elephants that are beautiful to look at, but not particularly useful for the plebeian masses).

[Coleus]

we need to bring back

DDT

It will save lives and it will kill mosquitoes that carry viruses and parasites.

[Chickensoup]

Ddt

[Chickensoup]

Can we order via Amazon?

[Chickensoup]

Ddt is not Diatomaceous Earth

[Deaf Smith]

Things have changed for the better since 2018 with a new product.

The new product came out in 2019 (Terminix refused to used it) called Aprehend.

It can be ordered in some feed stores. It is a fungus and works very well. Costs may be about $200 now for a pint. It HAS to stay refrigerated! Can NOT get above 80F to stay effective. Home being treated has to be below 80F.

The Aprehend web site has videos of how to apply applications. They want you to used their proprietary sprayer, but you can use a misting spray bottle.

Do watch Aprehend’s training videos for understanding the product and application.

I am no longer with Terminix or in pest control.

I set off five Dumpster Fires in corporate before I left; District mgr demoted and branch mgr fired, but brought back to another branch.

[Coleus]

Is Aprehend for bedbugs? Do you need an applicator license to purchase it?

Also, can ddt be bought online? I’ve never researched it. thanks.

[Deaf Smith]

Aprehend is labeled just for bedbugs.
Can be ordered from some feed stores.
Watch the company’s videos for how & why for application, to understand what it is.
DDT is just a dream in the US.