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Bed Bugs in the News

• 10/18/2010 | New York Times
  Bedbugs
  
  Bedbugs are about one-eighth- to one-quarter-inch long, reddish brown in color, with oval, flattened bodies. They can't fly, but they can scurry quite quickly over floors, walls and ceilings. They hitch rides in suitcases and clothing, and they have increasingly been showing up all over New York City, including in expensive hotels and tony co-op, condominium and rental buildings.
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• 10/12/2010 | NJ Star Ledger
  Bedbugs at Jersey City's School 22 prompt sprayings, but not much clarity on seriousness
  
  Officials are addressing a bedbug problem at School 22 in Jersey City, but administrators and parents have different understands about the scope of the problem.
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• 11/18/2010 | New York Times
  Alone When the Bedbugs Bite
  
  A COUPLE of months ago when I woke up with small clusters of insect bites on my elbows, hands and knees, it happened to be the opening day of the first-ever North American bedbug summit, held in Chicago.
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• 11/11/2010 | New York Times
  When a Bedbug Find Is a Dog’s Main Meal Ticket
  
  Bedbug-sniffing dogs have been lauded for their radar-like ability to detect bedbugs that are hidden from human sight. But there have been growing concerns about “false positives” — when a dog incorrectly signals that bedbug are present — within the pest-control industry, and from consumers, too.
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• 10/31/2010 | New York Times
  IN TRANSIT; An App to Tell Travelers Where the Bedbugs Bite
  
  Bedbugs are as likely to settle in luxury hotels as youth hostels. So, travelers may wonder, is there a way to figure out whether a hotel (or theater or restaurant) is infested? Well, now there's an app for that.
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• 10/15/2010 | New York Times
  Bedbugs Chomp Their Way Into the Fine Print
  
  BEDBUGS have infiltrated more and more places in New York City, and now they’ve even found their way into co-op and condominium contracts.
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• 10/4/2010 | Wall Street Journal
  Bedbugs Suspected Inside Wall Street Journal’s Office
  
  BEDBUGS have infiltrated more and more places in New York City, and now they’ve even found their way into co-op and condominium contracts.
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• 9/25/2010 | Wall Street Journal
  Bedbugs Finding a Way Into New York's Schools
  
  Having invaded New York City's bedrooms, retail stores, movie theaters and offices, bedbugs are now showing up with growing frequency in another place: public schools.
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• 9/12/2010 | Wall Street Journal
  Road Warriors vs. the Bed Bugs
  
  While hotels and motels aren't the only places where these insects can hitch a ride on clothes or other belongings -- after all, you can pick one up just by visiting a friend's home, and recent findings in movie theaters and offices prove how easily these bugs get around -- the high-traffic buildings are some of the highest-risk places to encounter these tiny insects that live by feasting on human blood while we're sleeping.
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• 8/30/2010 | Wall Street Journal
  They Crawl, They Bite, They Baffle Scientists
  
  In comparison to other insects that bite man, or even only walk across man’s food, nibble man’s crops or bite man’s farm animals, very little is known about the creature whose Latin name means — go figure — “bug of the bed.” Only a handful of entomologists specialize in it, and until recently it has been low on the government’s research agenda because it does not transmit disease. Most study grants come from the pesticide industry and ask only one question: What kills it?
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• 10/15/2010 | Who TV
  Bed Bugs: Like many homeowners and businesses, a Des Moines hospital deals with a bed bug epidemic.
  
  "One was spotted by a mom in the room," says Jennifer Perry, a spokesperson for Iowa Health. That room at Blank Children's Hospital was one of two treat for Bed Bugs in the last month. How they got there, no one knows
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