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Sleep Tight: How to keep bedbugs from biting

Sleep Tight: How to keep bedbugs from biting

From UF/IFAS With recent media exposure of bed bug activity impacting travelers worldwide, the public perception of this species tends to draw some concerns over its potential for harming humans and pets.  University of Florida experts at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) weigh in with science-based research on recognizing the species, their impacts on humans and pets, and how to keep them from hitchhiking home with you after traveling. Let’s begin with a few bites about bed bugs.  “Bed bugs are blood-sucking insects, well […]

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Chinatown hotel refutes tourist’s bed bugs claim, says it was ‘most likely an ant’, Singapore News

Chinatown hotel refutes tourist's bed bugs claim, says it was 'most likely an ant', Singapore News

There is no bed bug infestation at ST Signature Chinatown, the hotel chain told AsiaOne on Tuesday (Dec 5). ST Signature said that their pest control team examined the video and concluded that the insect is “likely an ant”. “ST Signature adhere to strict standard operating procedures in identifying, reporting, and addressing bedbug issues, and we also conduct regular pest control services to prevent any potential issues,” they said. “Our housekeeping staff is trained to identify and report sightings of pest, especially bed bugs. “We had no […]

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Tips From a Pest Control Expert

Tips From a Pest Control Expert

Cameron Bawden works in pest control in Arizona. Ben Christensen Bedbug infestations have been highly publicized this fall. But a pest exterminator said they can strike at any time of year. He described exterminating the insects as expensive and time-consuming. When Cameron Bawden gets a call from someone who suspects they have bedbugs, he asks them one question: Have they traveled recently? “They’ve usually been away,” said Bawden, the founder of Green Mango, an extermination company in Phoenix. Paris recently dealt with an infestation The critters — […]

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More bed bug cases reported from Pacific Explorer cruise ship

More bed bug cases reported from Pacific Explorer cruise ship

Two more cases of bed bugs have reportedly emerged on the Pacific Explorer cruise ship, both linked to the same cabin of a passenger who previously reported them, Annalise Butson. All three passengers were assigned the same cabin on separate cruises that left Auckland between August and October. One of the new passengers who came forward to report bed bugs on the cruise ship, told 1News she was conscious of health issues before her trip as she is booked in for surgery in a few weeks. “I […]

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Asia’s Bedbug Crisis | TIME

Train Disinfection in Seoul as Bedbug Anxiety Spreads

November 15, 2023 3:55 AM EST They’re a global nightmare. First they haunted Paris last month, before panic over potential outbreaks gripped Europe and the U.S. Now, bedbugs are terrifying a number of countries in Asia, where surges in infestations of the pest are fueling fresh anxieties among the public and stirring governments to action. Read More: Bed Bugs Aren’t Just a Problem in Paris. Here’s Why Since the start of November, South Korea has embarked on a fierce campaign against the bloodsucking critters. Bedbugs had been […]

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Gas, guns and hazmat suits: On the frontline in the fight against bedbugs

Gas, guns and hazmat suits: On the frontline in the fight against bedbugs

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email “Stay two paces behind me and don’t sit down anywhere unless I tell you to,” a veteran bedbug exterminator tells me as I follow him into a suspected infested flat in north London. In his decades on the job, microbiologist David Cain has annihilated swarms of the blood-sucking insects from £125m super yachts off the Spanish coast, a media baron’s £5 million townhouse in Knightsbridge […]

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Reports of bedbug appearances reach 30 nationwide

Reports of bedbug appearances reach 30 nationwide

SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Yonhap) — The number of confirmed or suspected cases of bedbug appearances has risen to about 30 nationwide, the government said Tuesday, amid growing public jitters about the pests that pose various health threats. The bedbug cases had been reported to 17 metropolitan city and provincial governments across the country until Monday, according to the government’s joint countermeasures headquarters against bedbugs, which was launched by the interior ministry last Friday to stop the spread of the pests. Recently, bedbugs have increasingly appeared in lodging […]

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Chiltern Railways reassures passengers over bedbug scare

Chiltern Railways reassures passengers over bedbug scare

The train company, which is the main operator in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, has reassured nervous passengers how it is stopping bedbugs from hitching a ride on its trains, which transport thousands of travellers each day to and from London. Although there have been no official reports of bedbugs in Buckinghamshire, there are concerns over a possible widespread bedbug infestation in London this winter.  A Chiltern Railways spokesperson said: “We would like to reassure customers that Chiltern has a thorough deep cleaning regimen in place. Specialist, industrial cleaning machinery […]

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What you need to know about Europe’s bedbug panic

What you need to know about Europe’s bedbug panic

CNN  —  Dermatologist Zeina Nehme says her clinic usually sees a number of cases every summer in which patients have been bitten by bedbugs while traveling. Yet surprisingly enough, she says none materialized this year. However, like anyone else not living under a rock, Nehme has seen the flurry of headlines and social media accounts documenting the bedbug paranoia in Paris, which erupted during Fashion Week and has since spread to other cities including London. So, during her recent trip to the City of Light, Nehme decided […]

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Expert reveals tell-tale sign to know if you’ve been bitten

Expert reveals tell-tale sign to know if you’ve been bitten

Could the Paris bed bug infestation spread to the UK – or has it already? (Stock image: Getty) Paris is in the grip of a bed bug infestation, with fears that the insects are already en route to the UK. According to reports, bed bugs have not only been spotted in homes, but in public areas like cinemas, restaurants, hotels and hospitals as well as public transport. Experts say the French capital always sees a spike in bed bugs in late summer, but numbers are increasing every […]

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