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Cuyahoga County health officials share tips on how to deal with bed bugs – WKYC.com

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MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, Ohio On Friday, the Cuyahoga County Bed Bug Task Force met for its annual conference to discuss the dangers of the tiny insects.

According to the task force, bed bugs have made a resurgence in recent years in Northeast Ohio and around the country. While they commonly pop up at night while we are sleeping, they can be spotted anywhere, and the CDC and the USEPA have even declared that the bed bug is now a "pest of significant public health importance."

"Anytime you bring people together, you have the potential of those people bringing bed bugs with them," Director of Environmental Public Health Rick Novickis said. "Kids come to school, they may accidentally bring a bug from an infested home with them. They now hang their coats up next to each other, [and] there's nothing to stop that bed bug from either falling off the clothing or the backpack or the lunch bag [and] crawling into the classroom."

RELATED: Towslee Elementary School in Brunswick to close on Thursday and Friday after possible bed bug found in student's folder

While they are not necessarily carriers of diseases, bed bugs can still cause significant physical (biting) and mental (stress) health concerns, and can pop up even in quite sanitary living conditions. The county says it is important to know what you're dealing with before deciding the next steps.

"Pesticides are species-specific these days," sanitarian Tom Barsa said, adding he recommends people take pictures of the bugs or even keep them in bags to show experts. "You really have to know what you're going after in order to get rid of the pest that you're trying to get rid of."

For more information, log on to cuyahogabedbugs.com.

RELATED: Cleveland drops from first to 7th in national rankings for bed bug infestations

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California Renter Bed Bug Rights | Debedbug

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It happens all too often: A tenant wakes up one day with a row of mysterious bites. They check online and start to suspect bed bugs but face a hard decision.

Should you tell your landlord and risk retaliation? Will the landlord accuse you of bringing the bed bugs in yourself and force you to pay for treatment out of pocket?

This post will help you navigate through the important questions and answer them.

Disclaimer: Information found on this page is informational, not legal advice. Consult a licensed attorney at law before considering taking any action.

Many a landlord has claimed that they should not be held responsible for infestations. Many try to pass the cost of professional treatment off to tenants.

It is impossible to isolate where bed bugs came from once theyve settled in.

We cover the most common causes of bed bugs so you know what situations to avoid.

Finding them in your own home is already a task. Expecting every tenant to check periodically is unrealistic.

By the time symptoms are noticeable, bed bugs have likely spread to other rooms and units.

With this reality in mind, the legal responsibility to pay and fix the issue falls upon the landlord.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has issued rules and guidelines prohibiting landlords from charging or subsidizing the cost of bed bug treatment.

Well explain those rules shortly. It is also good to know what landlords and tenants must do at the least in California.

The Landlord Obligations Law of California Civil Code Section 1941.1, stipulates thatlandlords must provide and maintain:

The Tenant Obligations Law of California Civil Code Section 1941.2, requires that the tenant:

Retaliation by the landlord is illegal when a tenant must take matters into their own hands.

California Civil Code Section 1942.5 prohibits a landlord from retaliating against a tenant if the tenant:

Landlords who try to pass the cost of bed bug treatment on to tenants are violating their legal obligation to maintain the property.

California Civil Code Section 1941.1 protects tenants from landlords turning a blind eye on vermin, which includes bed bugs.

California offers protections specifically from bed bugs to renters in several forms. Knowing them is important as they are your rights as a renter.

Bed bugs should be reported as soon as they are suspected to safeguard the entire building and even neighboring buildings.

To encourage reporting the State ensures that landlords cant use scare tactics to avoid dealing with bed bugs.

In the big picture, reporting bed bugs early saves everyone money and stress. That includes the landlord.

Tenants have the legal right to withhold rent when the landlord fails to maintain habitable conditions.

This is called an Affirmative Defense to an unlawful detainer.

Tenants can file suit against landlords who fail to maintain rental units in a habitable condition.

Disclaimer: Consult a licensed attorney at law before considering taking any action.

Californias Landlord Obligations Law and the case of Knight v. Hallsthammar establish that a landlord is obligated to provide and maintain residential rental premises in a habitable condition, regardless of the landlords financial ability, financial condition, or the availability of funds for necessary repairs and maintenance.

This means that a landlord saying, I dont have the money, is not a valid excuse.

Sometimes landlords engage in willful negligence. They may claim that the tenant never provided notice of an infestation.

Peterson v. Superior Court held that a landlord has constructive notice if a reasonable inspection would have revealed the defect.

Constructive notice represents the idea that whether or not a person or entity actually knows something, they are liable for its consequences if they reasonablyshouldhave known.

The act of not knowing is negligence in itself on the part of the property owner.

In most cases, the landlord is legally required to pay for bed bug treatment in California.

For example:

I recently wrote about a newly enacted amendment toSection 1942.5.

You can read about it here:Californias New Bed Bug Laws.

Or, you can get the skinny on the update with this infographic:

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As always, congratulations on investing in your own health and learning your rights. Best of luck in your fight towards getting and staying Debedbugged!

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Bedbug discovered in another government office building – Ottawa Citizen

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Bedbugs have invaded another federal government building in downtown Ottawa.

Employees at Fisheries and Oceans Canada were notified Wednesday that an insect, found on the 13th floor of 200 Kent Street, has been positively identified as a bedbug by pest management experts at Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC).

We are working with PSPC pest management experts who will be performing a canine inspection before determining the extent of the issue, employees were told in an email shared with this newspaper.

Depending on the advice of the pest management experts from PSPC, a full treatment of the affected area may be required. Elements of the treatment could include vacuuming, steaming and other measures. Whenever possible, treatments are done after hours to minimize the impact on employees.

Federal employees in the building were told that theyd be expected to report to work as usual while the extent of the problem was determined.

The notice reminded employees that early reporting remains the cornerstone of effective management of any pest, and encouraged them to contact the national service call centre immediately if they suspect bedbugs in their workplace.

The glass and steel building at 200 Kent Street is also home to offices of the Canadian Coast Guard and the Tax Court of Canada.

It is the sixth federal office building in the capital to report an issue with bedbugs in recent weeks. The Public Service Alliance of Canada has called on the government to use sniffer dogs to check all federal office buildings and introduce training for workers so that they can identify the bloodsucking insects.

This is a serious health and safety issue affecting workers and the government needs to take proactive measures to eradicate bedbugs in all federal buildings, Eddy Bourque, national president of the Canada Employment and Immigration Union, said last week.

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Bed Bugs Have Found a New Home: Airplanes. Here’s How to Spot Them – Mental Floss

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Few people expect intercontinental air travel to be terribly comfortable, but for the most part, we do expect it to be clean. So it's particularly horrifying to hear that in addition to worrying about things like making it through security, fighting fellow passengers for overhead bin space, and praying you aren't sitting in front of someone who will kick the back of your seat for the whole flight, you also have to worry about insect infestation when you fly. According to Thrillist and Fox5NY, Air India has had multiple reports of bed bugs in its business-class seats. It's not the first airline to receive bed bug complaints, either, so if you travel frequently, you should probably learn how to spot these pests.

On July 17 and July 19, two separate Air India passengers tweeted about seeingand being bitten bybed bugs on flights from the New York City area to India. And it wasn't in economyone of the passengers said he paid $10,000 for business-class tickets for his wife and three children. After 17 hours in the air with bed bugs as seat mates, the passengers disembarked bloody and covered in bites. The Times of India reported that the airline had received reports of bed bugs on another flight on a different aircraft, but "appears to have ignored them."

But you can't just swear off Air India and assume you'll be safe from bugs on your next flight with another carrier. In 2017, a passenger flying from Canada to the UK on British Airways said that she and her daughter were bitten during their flight, too. In 2010 and 2011, British Airways and United Airlines both had bed bug infestations that left passengers riddled with bite marks. Travelers can easily carry bed bugs from their hotel onto a plane and then into their homes, and short of delaying every flight while the crew inspects and treats every seat, there's not much airlines can do to stop it.

The best you can do is be vigilant, and if you do see bed bugs (first, make sure you know what one looks like) tell a crew member immediately. To minimize your own exposure, cover yourself upbed bugs can't bite through your clothesand bring your own pillow and blanket. To really ensure you and your clothes stay bug-free, bring your own protective seat cover to put over your plane seat. Youll look pretty wacky to your fellow passengers, but you'll have an extra layer of protection.

And before you attack your airline for exposing you to an infestation, consider your own role. Since bed bug bites might not become apparent until a day or two after you're bitten, it's possible that you might not notice them if you've only been at your hotel a short time. If bugs are biting you in your airplane seat, it's very possible that you're actually the one who brought them on the plane in the first place. That's why one expert, Joe Ballenger of Ask an Entomologist, told Lifehacker that he recommends alerting both your airline and all the hotels you stayed in if you find bed bugs after your trip.

[h/t Thrillist]

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