Jan 27 2009
Source: The Vancouver Province
About four weeks ago, Province readers were introduced to Laura
Powell, a single mother of two young children who was trying her best
to keep things together during the holidays.
In addition to a derelict balcony that had been deemed unsafe to walk on, the New
Westminster mother, who battles bipolar disorder and carries around a chest full of less-than-rosy childhood memories, was in the midst of an ongoing war with bed bugs.
Jan 27 2009
Source: LA Times
Reporting from Cincinnati — In this Ohio city, it seems, it really is tough to stop the bed bugs from biting.
Jan 27 2009
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.
Jan 27 2009
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.
Jan 27 2009
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.
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