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US cities with the worst bedbugs, world’s largest Centurion Lounge opens in Atlanta and are your credit card rewards taxable? (Saturday Selection)

US cities with the worst bedbugs, world's largest Centurion Lounge opens in Atlanta and are your credit card rewards taxable? (Saturday Selection)

The worst US cities for bedbugs, American Express opens up the world’s largest Centurion Lounge in Atlanta and are credit card rewards taxable? All that and more in this week’s Saturday Selection, our weekly round-up of interesting tidbits from around the interwebs (links to each article are embedded in the titles). Orkin ranks US cities with the worst bedbugs Image from a hotel room in Chicago. Because I travel a ton, I live with a certain baseline dread of bedbugs. The critters have a certain innate “yuck” […]

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Pictured: Girl, 11, who died ‘after neighbour tried to eliminate bedbugs and poisonous gas drifted into her home’

Pictured: Girl, 11, who died 'after neighbour tried to eliminate bedbugs and poisonous gas drifted into her home'

By Rebecca Camber Crime And Security Editor 19:24 17 Jan 2024, updated 19:24 17 Jan 2024 A girl of 11 who died when a poisonous chemical allegedly used by a neighbour to tackle bedbugs drifted into her home was named yesterday for the first time. Fatiha Sabrin was poisoned when a neighbour allegedly scattered toxic chemical pellets around her flat in Shadwell, east London, in a bid to tackle an infestation of bed bugs. Yesterday the schoolgirl at the centre of the extraordinary poisoning case was named […]

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Carolyn Hax: Son’s pushy new wife ‘overreacted’ to bedbugs, right?

Carolyn Hax: Son’s pushy new wife ‘overreacted’ to bedbugs, right?

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Carolyn Hax is away. The following first appeared Jan. 15, 2010, and Sept. 2, 2009. Dear Carolyn: Both of our sons came home for Thanksgiving with their families. We put up our older son and his family in a hotel and had our younger son, his new (second) wife and their 5-month-old baby stay in our basement guest room. How I wish I had switched! On Friday morning, the new wife said she had bug bites. I […]

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From bedbugs to bomb hoaxes, should tourists avoid Paris? I live in the city and here’s the reality

From bedbugs to bomb hoaxes, should tourists avoid Paris? I live in the city and here's the reality

From bedbugs to bomb hoaxes, should you avoid visiting Paris? Local resident Caroline Harrap argues not. ADVERTISEMENT There’s a joke in certain circles, that whenever something goes wrong in Paris, we blame Emily. I think you know of whom I speak. Ever since the Netflix hit show ‘Emily in Paris’ portrayed the city as some sort of picture-perfect paradise, airbrushed to within an inch of its life, it’s been one thing after another. In short, Emily jinxed us. From strikes and bedbugs to bomb hoaxes, travellers could […]

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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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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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Bedbugs in Paris and Marseille cause concern ahead of 2024 Olympics

Bedbugs in Paris and Marseille cause concern ahead of 2024 Olympics

Comment on this storyComment Every year, hordes of tourists descend upon Paris with a shortlist of concerns: pickpockets, steep hotel prices, how to get skip-the-line tickets and the most polite way to decline a stranger’s offer of a friendship bracelet outside the Sacré-Coeur. But as the French capital prepares to welcome millions of visitors for the 2024 Summer Olympics, a different issue has caught the eye of government officials: bedbugs. Lots of them. Apparent footage of the insects has gone viral on social media platforms such as […]

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Report: Guests Battle Bedbugs at Disney World Resort

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The Walt Disney World Resort hosts several options to be a guest’s home away from home, and hundreds of thousands make the journey each year to stay on Disney property. Unfortunately, they aren’t the only ones swarming to the place where dreams come true. Credit: Disney For those who have never been to Florida, it’s often hot, humid, and a breeding ground for insects. While Disney goes way above and beyond the call of duty to ensure the cleanest and most comfortable accommodations possible, some visitors are […]

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These 7 Las Vegas resorts had bedbugs over the last 18 months

These 7 Las Vegas resorts had bedbugs over the last 18 months

Seven Las Vegas Strip hotels popular among tourists and entertainment seekers have attracted some unwelcome pests over the past year and-a-half: bedbugs. That’s according to a Southern Nevada Health District complaint first obtained by local news outlet KLAS.   The hotels include Circus Circus, Caesars Palace, Planet Hollywood, Palazzo, Tropicana, MGM Grand, and Sahara, records obtained by CBS MoneyWatch indicate. A guest at Caesars Palace alleges they were bitten by bedbugs in January. The room was taken out of service while the five-star hotel’s housekeeping team investigated the […]

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Bedbugs invade Hawaii’s Honolulu airport, prompt gate closures

Bedbugs invade Hawaii's Honolulu airport, prompt gate closures

On May 29, the Hawaii Department of Transportation received reports of unidentified bugs in Terminal 2, a spokesperson told SFGATE in a statement. HDOT sent staff to clean the area and “remove items they thought had attracted the bugs.” The next day, a Southwest Airlines manager spotted more of the bugs, collected a sample and contacted HDOT. The department identified them as bedbugs. HDOT staff deep-cleaned the area again, including a high-temperature cleaning of the carpets and application of a nontoxic spray, and closed gates E5, E6 […]

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