[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

“but they’ve since developed resistance.”

Not true, although people like yourself are swallowing this farbrication.

[TexasRepublic]

Is DDT being made anywhere in the world today? Just wondering.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Interesting! So DDT does still work for bedbugs. It is hard to know when to trust even 'science' information found on the web, unless it is on FR where the horde of Freeper experts will soon expose the truth. Regardless of what I'd read claiming bedbugs were now immune to DDT I'd kept the faith regarding DDT in general. It's a very safe chemical for people (even swallowed) AND a safe one for birds. And Rachel Carson was a mass murderer worthy of Stalin for removing it from the war on malaria. DDT could save more lives in Africa than condoms.

The same article's claim that Clinton's EPA banned 2 pesticides useful against bed bugs was easier for me to believe. Can you confirm that part?

As a Dermatologist I'm tasked to identify itchy folks who need to contact their exterminator. I can calm them, but it's up to the exterminator to cure them. Alas differentiating bedbug bites from other insects' isn't an exact science. I haven't seen a lot of cases here in the Iowa Quad Cities.

I did receive confirmation of another case from a patient yesterday. He said the exterminator told him the increase was due to them being imported by immigrants, especially from Africa, who weren't very sensitive to their bites. I have no idea whether that very non-PC third hand claim is correct. Personally I'd been blaming Clinton and the liberal EPA. Increased travel by people clearly aids bedbug's spread; Obama and his liberals crashing the economy might actually reduce the spread by reducing travel. However Obama's 40 vehicle motorcade, less the one drunk secret service agent, spent last night in town. If I find an uptake over the next month I'll blame them.