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Posted on 08/25/2006 7:05:27 AM PDT by Battle Hymn of the Republic
Bedbugs, the flat, brown, blood-sucking subjects of the beloved nursery rhyme, are back with a vengeance after almost being eradicated from this country for the past 60 years.
They're turning up in the residences of local travelers, having hitched rides in suitcases from parts of Europe, the former Soviet Union and other international hot spots.
They've popped up in a San Jose State University dormitory, where one room underwent extensive fumigation and cleaning Thursday morning.
One world, one icky, icky bug.
Case in point: the San Jose State infestation, which was found in a third-floor room of International House, one of the student dormitories.
Their flattened bodies allow them to hide themselves just about anywhere, with mattresses, headboards and cracks being their favorites. Adult bedbugs can live for a year without eating, and they can withstand temperatures of nearly freezing to almost 113 degrees. They may live up to 18 months.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
"They're turning up in the residences of local travelers, having hitched rides in suitcases from parts of Europe, the former Soviet Union and other international hot spots."
But they weren't carried in by illegal aliens.
Like Mexico?
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Nope. No Mexican bed bugs here. It's those Ruskies...
DDT.
we need to bring back DDT and FAST. Not just for these buggers but for our crops.
"But they weren't carried in by illegal aliens."
I stayed in a tourist cabin with some guys when we were hiking in the Smokies way back in 86-87 sometime and there were bedbugs infesting the place. The cabins were used by European tourists frequently. That was the first and only time I've ever seen bedbugs.
Bedbugs, the flat, brown, blood-sucking subjects of the beloved nursery rhyme, are back with a vengeance after almost being eradicated from this country for the past 60 years.Bedbugs, TB, Leprosy, Bubonic Plague, Hemorrhagic Fever and God knows what.
Well dang, CELEBRATE DIVERSITY and OPEN BORDERS. We don't need no stinking medical exams of the invaders, heavens no, that would be discriminatory.
(Señor, would you like some TB with your salad or maybe some Leprosy on your Taco?)
I wonder if the re-emergence of bedbugs has anything to do with the Morgellon's outbreak in South Texas? Just wondering if the two could be related in any way.
Bed bugs don't do well in low humidity, so I never thought California would have much of a problem. Maybe it's the hot, humid summer we're having. If you run AC it usually keeps bugs like that away (bed bugs absorb water through their exoskeleton.)
Hmmmmm. Good question...
Ah. Then it is unlikely they are coming up across our southern border via the deserts.
That makes the European connection far more plausible. Thanks for the info...
I'm surprised more and more weird diseases haven't shown up what with all the world travel. Travelers come and go but illegals come and stay.
Friends of mine that travelled through Australia said all the hostiles were infested with bedbugs, mostly due to the visiting Euros.
Bring back chlordane.
I would be hostile too if I were infested with bedbugs. ;^)
Condor, do you really think that this is really the problem? Click on this flight snapshot for a movie of all CONUS air traffic:
All these daily 'invaders' from nasty ports like Bangkok, Africa, God knows what connections.
You think we check their baggage for bedbugs? Their shoes for parasites?
You know how US customs works? "Did you touch any farm animals? No? Well come right on in."
I'm at a loss for why we won't clamp down on our borders and all the TB etc coming from Mexico....but in my experience of WW travel, that ain't nothin compared to the nasties brought upon us by Boeing, Inc!
1Fro just mentioned that story to me as she was reading the paper at the breakfoast table. I responded that I slept with the prettiest bed bug in town, so I wasn't worried--she would never bite me.
[Hey, at this point in my life I have to score all the points I can and I cannot afford to miss many opportunities. And, try as I may, I also can't weave jugulate into this post. I need more coffee.]
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