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A Bed Bug Infestation In A Retirement Home Cannot Be Eradicated

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Those who have experienced an infestation of bed bugs within their own homes would agree that the experience is traumatic. Luckily, there is always a happy end, as bed bug infestations are always eradicated, right. Typically, bed bug infestations are eradicated promptly due to effective bed bug-control methods. However, there is one particular location in Delaware where bed bugs cannot be extinguished. A public housing sector in Wilmington, Delaware is continually infested with bed bugs despite the efforts undertaken to have them all eradicated.

The public housing complex has long struggled to control their bed bug infestation problem. One resident, Richard Atkinson, says he wakes-up every night to find bloody-marks on his sheets. These bloody marks are caused by the numerous bed bugs that are biting Atkinson’s skin. Atkinson has been living within a bed bug infested housing unit for five months, and his apartment has been fumigated three different times. Amazingly, just during the last four months, pest control professionals have sprayed insecticide within the complex on one hundred and eighty different occasions.

These bed bug infestations are occuring at Luther Towers in Wilmington. There are two seperate towers simply named “tower one” and tower two”. The managers of the two senior living centers have tried to have the bed bugs eradicated numerous times. When counting tower two, pest control professionals have visited the towers three hundred and sixty one different times.

It may seem illegal to allow tenants to rent out apartments that are infested with bed bugs. However, according to Building administrators and city inspectors, the apartment managers are respecting the law and are following the proper protocol. Unfortunately for the residents, Delaware does not have a law on the books concerning bed bugs. According to the apartment managers, the bed bugs cannot be eradicated because several residents refuse to throw-out certain items that contain bed bugs, like clothes and furniture.

Do you think that living in these apartments would be threatening to your state of health?

A Bed Bug Infestation Causes A Fire Department To Close

We all know that a bed bug infestation should be considered a serious matter, and they need to be eradicated wherever they are found. However, what happens when bed bugs infest locations that are essential for addressing people’s emergencies? For example, if a bed bug infestation is discovered in a police station or a fire department, should these locations close until the bed bug presence is eliminated? Would firefighters or police officers still respond to public emergencies if their stations were closed for fumigations? Residents of Hobart, Indiana now know what happens when their local fire department becomes infested with bed bugs. Luckily, there were other fire departments within the city that were still functional.

Hobart Fire Station number three has recently closed in response to a bed bug presence within the building. The fire department needed to close in order to prevent bed bugs from reaching people’s homes. Luckily, the fire department always keeps a stash of sanitized fire-fighting equipment on hand in case of situations like this. According to Fire Chief Randy Smith, four firefighters had sustained bed bug bites from within the building. Once the bed bug presence became known, the Fire Chief promptly notified the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In accordance with protocol, all other fire departments in the city were inspected for bed bugs. Luckily, only fire department number three had been found to contain bed bugs. Smith claimed that closing the fire station was necessary in order to prevent bed bugs from spreading to new locations. Smith believes that the fire department may have become infested with bed bugs as a result of firefighters being dispatched to homes where bed bugs were located. This scenario seems likely as last fall firefighters were dispatched to a home that was later found to be infested with bed bugs and several insects.

Do you think that bed bugs could go unnoticed in one location for several months?

When And Why Did People Start Saying “Sleep Tight, Don’t Let The Bed Bugs Bite”?

Who has not been told to “sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite” at some point in life. This rhyme is commonly told to children right after their parents tuck them into bed. The rhyme has been around for as long as everyone on earth has been alive. For most of the twentieth century, this rhyme seemed nonsensical to most kids, and maybe many adults as well. After all, what were bed bugs to a child who was living during the ‘70s? For a long time, the so called “bed bugs” were commonly thought of as fictional beings. Many children from the ‘80s and ‘90 were surprised to grow-up and find that bed bugs are, in fact, real bugs that can bite and cause nightmarish infestations. These days, telling children not to let the bed bugs bite may sound horrific, as today bed bugs are so common that even many children are familiar with them. One thing is for sure, you probably won’t hear this rhyme from parents who experienced an infestation of bed bugs within their homes. Now that bed bugs are prevalent all over the world, one cannot help but to wonder how this particular rhyme became popular.

According to fossils and early texts, bed bugs have lived among humans since the Egyptian and Roman eras, but bed bugs were known by different names during these eras. Bed bugs were brought to North America by early colonists, and they remained in the United States until a pesticide known as DDT wiped nearly every one of them out in the mid-twentieth century. It turns out that the popular bedtime rhyme existed long before the DDT era. According to Etymologist Barry Popik, a contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary, the rhyme originated in the United States during the late 1800s. Back then the rhyme was often referring to mosquitoes, and not actual bed bugs. However, several books that were published in the late 1800s and early 1900s use the rhyme in reference to bed bugs. To this day, no expert can definitively describe how the rhyme originated. Since bed bugs are so common today you don’t want to repeat this rhyme to anybody, as many people have been forced to live with bed bugs, and they might not find the rhyme too amusing.

Have you ever read a book predating 1950 that referred to the popular “bed bug rhyme”?

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A Hospice Center Relocates Cancer Victims After Discovering A Bed Bug Infestation

It is hard to believe that for more than fifty years Americans and most other people around the world were unfamiliar with bed bugs. Three generations were born into a world where bed bugs had become well controlled and largely eradicated. Millenials, on the other hand, cannot imagine a world without bed bugs. Although older generations may not have become familiar with bed bugs in their early years, there is no doubt that they have become aware of them now. For example, there have been stories in the media lately about bed bugs infesting retirement communities, and certain medical clinics where a large proportion of patients are elderly.

It is likely that the elderly residents of Good Samaritan Retirement Home in Ocala, Florida were shocked to learn of a bed bug infestation within their living facilities. This particular retirement home has developed a bad reputation due to a few different factors. One of the most significant factors involves bed bugs. The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration has monitored the facility since 2007. Since then the facility has been slapped with over seventy five thousand dollars in fines, which is partly due to at least one bed bug infestation. One government report claims that at least two rooms in the retirement home had become infested with bed bugs, which resulted in a fine issued by the state of Florida. In addition to bed bug infestations, careless treatment of elderly residents finally resulted in the closing of the retirement home.

Perhaps even more startling than the bed bug issues at the retirement home is the recent infestation at a Hospice center in Pella, Iowa. Hospice is the well known humanitarian organization that aims to care for people suffering from cancer. Patients at Hospice of Pella have been relocated due to a bed bug infestation. The patients have been relocated to the facility’s first floor. Obviously, the first floor sees a lot of traffic and patients have been forced to deal with living in the overpopulated and cramped main floor. According to Hospice staff, the Comfort House sees a lot of visitors come and go on a daily basis, and a visitor could easily have transported the bed bugs to this particular area. A couple of weeks ago a VA hospital in New Hampshire was forced to close temporarily in order to eradicate a bed bug infestation. The Comfort House is currently being treated for the infestation.

Do you believe that a bed bug-screening technology could be developed in order to prevent vulnerable buildings from becoming infested with bed bugs?

Archive for the ‘Bed Bugs’ Category

A Bed Bug Infestation In A Retirement Home Cannot Be Eradicated

A Bed Bug Infestation Causes A Fire Department To Close

When And Why Did People Start Saying “Sleep Tight, Don’t Let The Bed Bugs Bite”?

Bed Bug Checklist Infographic

A Hospice Center Relocates Cancer Victims After Discovering A Bed Bug Infestation

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