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The Pandemic May Spare Us From Another Plague: Bedbugs – The New York Times

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A friend, whose suitcase became a bedbug vector apparently during storage in the luggage room of a high-end hotel in upstate New York, found one crawling on her when she donned nightclothes and sat down to read shortly after arriving home in Brooklyn. She spent $1,300 to get the house fumigated, and now routinely quarantines her luggage and its contents out in the freezing cold after a trip to minimize the risk of a repeat invasion.

What my friend didnt know, however, is that bedbugs can live for many months without feeding on human blood, so waiting even weeks to unpack may not help. Brooklyn backyards and even home freezers may not be cold enough to kill them: Experts recommend minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit.

As an Orkin entomologist, Chelle Hartzer, warned about bedbugs, They are excellent hitchhikers and they reproduce quickly, which make it nearly impossible to prevent bedbugs. Increases in both domestic and international travel in recent decades contributed greatly to their current ubiquity. Complicating control efforts, theyve become resistant to most commonly used insecticides, including pyrethroids.

No one, not the most fastidious among us, is immune to a bedbug infestation. They can be found just about any place where people sit or sleep cinemas, offices, schools, churches, hospitals, buses, trains, cruise ships and airplanes, as well as in hotels and homes. According to a lengthy report by Australian scientists in Clinical Microbiology Reviews, an entire buildings infestation can start with only a few bedbugs or, possibly, even a single female.

One impregnated female can lay two to five eggs a day.

And the bugs can be devilishly difficult to detect. The eggs of this flightless insect are pearly white and the size of a pinhead; adults are brown or reddish brown (if they had a recent blood meal) and the size of an apple seed, about a quarter-inch long. Two French doctors, writing in The New England Journal of Medicine in June, reported that between blood meals, bedbugs hide in dark places, such as household cracks and crevices, walls, luggage, bedclothes, mattresses, bedsprings, bed frames, spaces under baseboards, loose or peeling wallpaper, electrical switch plates and conduits for electrical cables.

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BIW battling bed bugs – Portland Press Herald

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BATH Bath Iron Works is dealing with a bed bug issue, but a representative from the shipyards largest union said steps have been taken to control the pests.

While details of when the bugs were introduced to the shipyard and to what degree theyve spread are unknown, Tim Suitter, a representative from Local S6 said, BIW has been very responsive to the issue, and has isolated the incident. Proper pest control, and other steps were taken, and we are committed to working with BIW to make sure our members are protected.

The Times Record interviewed four BIW employees, most of whom asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal. One employee said a worker unintentionally brought the bed bugs into one building of the shipyard from their home. That person was sent home when the problem was discovered. Pest control was brought in to clean the employees station, locker and the surrounding area.

About the size of an apple seed, the flat brown bugs feed on human blood, leaving behind small, itchy bumps. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the pests can easily hide and hitch rides on people to spread from place to place. Bedbugs dont spread disease, but can be difficult to get rid of.

We are committed to preserving the safety and privacy of each of our employees and have taken all necessary steps to do so, said David Hench, BIWs communications representative. We regret that this is viewed as newsworthy and are concerned for the safety, privacy and dignity of the people involved.

Bed bug infestations were rare until the 1990s, but are now considered a common pest throughout the U.S., according to a 2015 report from the University of Washington.

Bed bugs can be found anywhere, even the most expensive hotel; they are not a sign of poor cleaning, the report states.

The bugs can be eradicated through chemical and natural means. Bed bugs die when their body temperature reaches 113F, according to the EPA, so to kill bed bugs with heat the room or container must be hotter to ensure sustained heat reaches the bugs no matter where they are hiding.

Freezing temperatures can also do the job, but the room must remain below freezing for an extended period of time, and the EPA warns home freezers may not be cold enough to kill bed bugs. Putting them outside in freezing temperatures could kill bed bugs, but there are many factors that can affect the success of this method.

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