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

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

[ad_1] 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. […]

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Bedbug menace sparks nationwide fear [REWIND 2023]

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Workers from the state-run train operator Korail disinfect subway trains in Guro District, western Seoul, on Nov. 14 amid an alarming rise of suspected bedbug cases in the country. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

[ad_1] Workers from the state-run train operator Korail disinfect subway trains in Guro District, western Seoul, on Nov. 14 amid an alarming rise of suspected bedbug cases in the country. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]   Public fear of bedbugs surged in Korea after reports of local infestations spiked late this year.   Bedbugs reportedly reappeared in the country in a jjimjilbang, or Korean bathhouse, in Incheon on Oct. 13. The pests, which survive up to 100 days without feeding, can leave a bright red rash accompanied by itches […]

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Experts warn about an alarming increase of a skin-crawling pest in the coming decades — here’s what you should know

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Experts warn about an alarming increase of a skin-crawling pest in the coming decades — here’s what you should know

[ad_1] In today’s News That Will Make You Itch, pollution and the use of pesticides have likely led to a rise in bedbugs, according to experts. One U.K. pest control company, Rentokil, warned that bedbug infestations increased 65% from 2022 to 2023. What is happening? “Bedbugs are everywhere,” wrote London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine professor of medical entomology James Logan in the Guardian. Professor Logan attributes the rise in bedbugs to a couple of factors. For one, bedbugs are now resistant to most commonly used […]

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

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

[ad_1] 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 […]

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Sleep Tight: How to keep bedbugs from biting

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Sleep Tight: How to keep bedbugs from biting

[ad_1] 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, […]

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

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

[ad_1] 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 […]

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Tips From a Pest Control Expert

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Tips From a Pest Control Expert

[ad_1] 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

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More bed bug cases reported from Pacific Explorer cruise ship

[ad_1] 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. […]

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Asia’s Bedbug Crisis | TIME

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Train Disinfection in Seoul as Bedbug Anxiety Spreads

[ad_1] 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 […]

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

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

[ad_1] 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 […]

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