Source:  DailyGlobe.com

WORTHINGTON — Two more cases of bed bug infestations have been reported to Nobles-Rock Community Health Services in the last week, bringing the total number of investigations to four.

Jason Kloss, NRCHS Sanitarian, said the two new cases involve a unit in a local apartment complex, as well as a residential rental home. The first two locations included a residential rental home and a motel, which responded immediately to the discovery by fumigating its entire facility.

Tags: Bed Bug Infestations hit two more places!

Source:  GlobalTV.com

An Edmonton woman who took part in an overnight sleep study awoke to find herself covered in bed bug bites.

Dawn Blue’s constant exhaustion prompted her doctor to refer her to the sleep disorder clinic at Edmonton General Hospital. It is overseen by Alberta Health Services, formerly Capital Health.

Tags: Sleep Lab finds Bedbugs feeding on participant

Source:  The Korea Times

bed bugs were found in Korea for the first time in 20 years, and experts suspect they came from the United States.

A Yonsei University research team led by professor Yong Tai-soon of the Medical College’s parasitology department said Sunday that it confirmed an insect, which a 30-year-old woman caught in her room and brought to them in December 2007, to be a bed bug.

Tags: First Bedbugs In over 20 Years

Source:   Physorg.com

Bed bugs, once nearly eradicated in the built environment, have made a big comeback recently, especially in urban centers such as New York City. In the first study to explain the failure to control certain bed bug populations, toxicologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Korea’s Seoul National University show that some of these nocturnal blood suckers have developed resistance to pyrethroid insecticides, in particular deltamethrin, that attack their nervous systems.

Tags: How Bed Bugs Resis Pesticides

Source:  WTNC.org

NEW YORK, NY January 04, 2009 —Advocates calling on the city to wage war against bed bugs hope 2009 will be the year they get legislative – and dermatological – relief. WNYC’s Fred Mogul has more.

Tags: Bed Bug Victims Hoping for action!