Bedbugs are back - in all 50 states

There is a San Francisco Chronicle article here titled: “Bedbugs bounce back: Outbreaks in all 50 states.”

This is a topic no one wants to hear about but it looks like the problem is here to stay unless state and federal health departments begin doing more about it.

In the beginning of this decade infestation reports centered on hotels frequented by international travelers.

Bedbug infestations are now found at the seediest hotels as well as the most expensive. Worse, travelers are carrying bedbugs home with them. They are now found in apartments and homes occupied by people of all income levels.

The Chronicle article mentions a web site here where people share extermination tips, bite mark photos and counsel each other through the stigma of a bedbug infestation.

Hope I never see one of these little creatures but if so I will contact my city and county health department offices at once.

We posted about this unpleasant subject three times in the past. Click on a date below to read the article:

March 8, 2006
“Hotels in denial while bedbugs bite guests”

January 26, 2006
“Bedbugs biting the big apple”

April 26, 2005
“Dirty little secret of the Hotel industry”