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Overcrowded living quarters makes the problem worse. Americans aren't as likely to live 14 people to a house as illegals are.
Some posters are saying this problem is anywhere and everywhere, but I've really never heard of bed bugs being a big problem up until a few years ago and concentrated mostly in NYC and LA.
Any place can have bedbugs.
Leave your luggage out in the hallway and check:
under the pillows, under the bottom sheet, between the sheets and between the mattress and box spring.
BTW, bedbugs are selective. They might not bite your spouse, but they'll bite you.
Bed bugs are a problem in many cities. DDT was effective in eradicating bed bugs however there
were many valid reasons to ban it, i.e., serious health impacts to humans such as breast and other
cancers, male infertility, miscarriages and lower birth rates & nervous system and liver damage.
The increase of these nasty pests is international travel, higher population density in cities and
the bugs resistance to common pesticides. The best way to get rid of them is to use freezing
(temp of 0) or heating (140 degrees) - kind of difficult if we are speaking of a house, apartment
complex or hotel.
No, here they are brought in by illegal aliens who live with 3 or 4 large families in a 2 bedroom. The schools have backpacks that they send home food for the weekends. My guess is that those bags also transport the bedbugs along with the clothing, etc. Our town is smaller and if you can observe towns heavy with illegal aliens, you'll see a trend. We also have a problem with head lice, big problem. Yuck, I can't wait to relocate. We don't even go to the library because you can transport them in library books.
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that and globalism(nafta) etc.. they were virtually eradicated in the USA and resurged in the 90's.
Yes. You got it! I'm 61 years old and have moved all over the country since I was 20 years old. It took moving to a city with meat and dog food plants and the illegal aliens they attract for me to get an education about bedbugs and head lice.
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How dare you post something that conflicts with the xenophobic and/or racist themes that are so popular in The US nowadays?
Don't you know that none of our problems could possibly be related to US citizens, and that all of our problems are the result of those who immigrate from other countries?
Certainly that must be the case, based on the rants of Darn Old tRump and that Hispanic guy from Canada who goes by the alias of "Ted" Cruz.
If it walks like duck............
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Overcrowded living quarters makes the problem worse. Americans aren't as likely to live 14 people to a house as illegals are.
Some posters are saying this problem is anywhere and everywhere, but I've really never heard of bed bugs being a big problem up until a few years ago and concentrated mostly in NYC and LA.
Well, the only thing I disagree with, and it could be location specific, is 14 people to a house. Seems a little on the low side and sounds like just one couple and their anchor babies. Here 3 to 4 families live together, 6 to 8 cars on the curb. Because they can't feed their families, backpacks with food in (begged from the residents) are handed out for the weekend so they'll have something to eat, then the bags go back to the school and I suspect they are contaminated with at least bedbugs. Lice are a real problem here. Cannot wait to relocate.
They also brought in Somali refugees in 2007. But, I am sure just some American traveler contaminated the town with bedbugs. Not a lot of world travelers in small towns.
Mattresses are manufactured in the US, all that I have seen.
This is all a part of descending into third world conditions. That is indeed related to "Current Events".
The big problem with NYC today is that, the city has become very transient. What I mean is that people come in and out of the city like never before. A generation ago people avoided the city all together. Areas such as the Bronx and BRooklyn were no go places for majority of Americans when they came to NYC. BRooklyn now today is very hip where suburban kids after college want to move to, and even the Bronx is getting looked at by some. If NYC was not very transient, the city would not have this bedbug problem or infestation. Also Bedbugs is one problem. NYC also has a nasty rat infestation as well. Areas of the city with lots of transients seem to get the bulk of the rodents and pests.
Yes, any place can have bed bugs, but I would hope a decent hotel would be vigilant enough to discover an infestation before it became severe and would have an established relationship with a good extermination company. Especially in NYC.
Guests coming and going regularly. A room which had been treated and had a happy guest one night can have someone at the front desk screaming about bed bugs the next night.
Overcrowded living quarters makes the problem worse. Americans aren't as likely to live 14 people to a house as illegals are.
Some posters are saying this problem is anywhere and everywhere, but I've really never heard of bed bugs being a big problem up until a few years ago and concentrated mostly in NYC and LA.
You're more likely to find them in major cities, which makes sense because there are more people living there, higher density, more visitors, etc. But bedbugs can truly be found anywhere. They can travel with people on planes and trains (and also be found in planes and trains), get into/come from people's homes and on their clothes, and be found in college dorms. Hotels anywhere have had and could have bedbugs at any given time. A place like Hershey, PA or Disney World or Land, and any other large, popular amusement or water park area can also be culprits despite their rather small populations. Also hotels off of major highways, where many people will stop off for the night. Places that see a lot of tourism are most likely to be affected because many people from many places are in and out.
People probably think the problem is confined to major cities because that's where the most stories and complaints come out of, as many, many people live in and visit cities, especially major ones. But bedbugs can and do get anywhere nowadays. Even movie theaters, rental cars, etc. It's kind of scary when you think about it. So I try not to.
I know a teacher in Harrison, NJ (rather rough city in the very dense, immigrant heavy Hudson County). She teaches elementary school and some of her students have infestations in their homes, they come in with bites and even drag stragglers into the classroom. They've found bedbugs here and there in the classroom, likely transported on kids' backpacks and clothes. They're very vigilant about it because no one wants to bring them home.
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