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If youve ever suffered through a bedbug infestation, you know firsthand just how difficult it is to get rid of them. Bug bombs and foggers are largely ineffective, so aside from pulling your mattress into the street and burning it in your neighbors driveway, theres not much you can really do to banish the little bloodsucking bastards from your bedroom.

But theres hope on the horizon. Biologists Regine and Gerhard Gries have been studying bedbugs for past fiveyears sometimes even offering themselves up as guinea pigs in a quest to build a more effective remedy. Now, as explained in a recently published study in the chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie, they believe theyve discovered a working technique.

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Instead of using a fog or aerosolized spray of some sort (which have been proven to be ineffective), the duo have developed an ingenious two-part chemical trap. First, the bugs are lured our of their hiding places with a special mixture of pheromones. Once theyre out in the open, theyre hit with a very specific histamine that acts as a kind of knockout drug for bedbugs, causing arrestment on contact. It doesnt kill the bugs but causes them to seize up and freeze in place, making them much easier to remove.

Unfortunately the researchers havent yet figured out how to transform this technique into a treatment that you can buy at your local drugstore, but their discovery is still a huge step forward in the battle against bedbugs. For now well just have to wait patiently, and hopefully well have Bedbug-Be-Gone at our disposal by the end of 2015. Fingers crossed!

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Even if a product can be used to control all bed bugs in a room or a facility, unless that product leaves lasting control, reinfestation is a distinct possibility.

Any products sold and advertised to control bed bugs must comply with federal and state regulations. Home remedy recipes are largely ineffective and may be dangerous. For example, mixing a few household chemicals together as someone might read online, might control bed bugs but it can also be very dangerous. Products used in the US must be registered with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and in Canada, they must be registered by the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA). Certain products are exempt but beware of any product which does not have a regulatory agency statement that it is registered. Smart consumers should make sure that if the product claims to be exempt from regulation, that the claim is true.

Many bed bug sprays can be found in pressurized cans or in bottles with a pump spray head. EPA and PMRA registered products are effective but users must strictly comply with label requirements as to when and where the product may be used. If the product does not permit use on mattresses, for example, then the product may not be used on mattresses.

Consumers should carefully consider all options, select the control method which is best for their lifestyle and values, and always understand that any product used must be done with extreme care and the user should have knowledge of the biology and control methods for bed bugs.

An inspector uses a spray on an electrical outlet where bed bugs congregated.

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Amarillo, TX - Residents staying at a halfway house in Amarillo said there is a bed bug infestation but they cannot legally leave.

The Amarillo Transitional Treatment Center is a place for parolees and those on probation to stay while they finish treatment for addiction.

One resident said she is thankful for the service but has had enough when it comes to the pesky bugs. "I'm so eaten up with bed bugs that it is not conducive to my health or my safety to stay there," said Nicole Patrick. She left the center this morning and is now violating her parole to get away from the bugs. "I wasn't supposed to leave the halfway house, but I had to make an executive decision for my own health and safety. I informed them where I was going, where I would be and contact numbers so that I wouldn't get in trouble, but I'm pretty sure they're still going to mark me as absconding.

Patrick has bug bites across her face, legs and arms. She said staff at the center have taken some steps to eliminate the bed bugs, but nothing is working. "They sprayed, they've done heat treatments, they have us wipe down our beds and take our mattresses outside and spray them with bleach, wipe our beds with bleach, but every day I'm still waking up with bed bug bites."

Another resident still living at the center said she has been battling the bugs since August. On-site staff declined to comment about a potential bed bug problem and the CEO of the center who lives in Lubbock said he is unaware that there is any issue at all. He said if there was a bed bug infestation, his staff would do all the necessary treatments to fix the problem.

However, Patrick disagrees. "They've known about this problem for quite some time and I feel like the procedure to get rid of them fully, they're not wanting to do and it's like putting a band-aid on a hemorrhage."

Patrick said she is working with her parole officer and hopes they can make a different living arrangement so she won't violate her parole.

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FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - City of Fort Worth employees are displaced from one office building for the next few days, due to bedbugs.

Eight office cubicles are affected by bedbugs at the building on 275 W. 13th Street, according to a city spokesperson. The two story building houses the citys IT operations.

A city spokesperson says about 60 employees will be displaced during the cleaning process. Some will work from home and others will work at off-site locations in the city.

There is no word on how the bugs arrived at the building. Employees seen leaving the building on Wednesday told CBS 11 News, they just found out about the bedbug problem today.

A city spokesperson says a bug problem was first reported in late October. At that time, the building was treated. The bugs came back and another treatment was performed. At the time, the city did not know they were bedbugs. A sample was tested, and once the bugs were identified, a treatment plan was developed.

Terminix Commercial Pest Control did an assessment and recommends using dry ice as the primary method of killing the bugs. According to the plan, a team of 8 to 10 people will spray dry ice into every crack and crevice, up and down every partition, the carpet and the ceiling.

Through this Friday, a janitorial crew wearing protective jumpsuits will vacuum the building to reduce the number of bedbugs.

Saturday and Sunday, the professional exterminators will apply the dry ice to both floors of the building. No other employees will be allowed in the building.

Sunday night a janitorial contractor will make sure the building is ready for occupancy.

Monday the building is expected to be open for normal business.

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