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An exterminator in the Dallas area says he regularly treats rideshare vehicles for bed bugs and is getting more and more business due to the growing gig economy.

Don Brooks is the owner of Doffdon Pest Control, an extermination company that specializes in getting rid of bed bugs. He told Dallas ABC affiliate WFAA that hes been seeing more and more rideshare drivers come to him to rid their vehicles of bed begs and currently treats up to ten rideshare vehicles per week.

Drivers either see bed bugs, someone complained, or they were suspicious of a customer and just want to make sure, Brooks told WFAA. Its highly likely they can crawl off of someone.

The increasing amount of rideshare drivers turning to Brooks for help should serve as a warning to companies like Waymo and General Motors Cruise subsidiary. Both companies want to launch fully autonomous ridesharing services in the future, but they will have to ensure its shared AVs remain sanitary between rides, which may be more difficult when there is no driver on board. GMs Cruise Origin autonomous shuttle, which it unveiled earlier this year, has two fabric bench seats for passengers and can seat a total of six people.

Dirty shuttles could leave companies like Waymo and Cruise with a lot more to worry about than a bad Google Play or App Store rating. WFAA identified an LA law firm that represents people who have been bitten by bed bugs while traveling in rideshare vehicles and shuttles. The firm says plaintiffs can earn a settlement from Uber or Lyft if they have sustained injuries from bed bugs or other pests while using their services, suing for medical expenses, property damage, lost wages and pain and suffering.

The WFAA report also referenced a study conducted by insurance company Netquote that found rideshare vehicles were, on average, 35 times dirtier than a toilet seat and also far dirtier than a rental car or a taxi. The dirtiest places for passengers in a rideshare vehicle were the window switches, seatbelt buckles and door handles.

Purpose-built rideshare vehicles may be able to prevent the spread of bedbugs by switching out fabrics for plastic. Antimicrobial materials could also be used in their interior to help mitigate the spread of germs for passengers.

GM has not said when it plans to launch Cruise Origin as a driverless ridesharing vehicle. We do know it will be built at the automakers Detroit-Hamtramck production facility in Michigan, though, and will tap the automakers new BEV3 electric platform.

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Bed Bug Hotel and Apartment Reports. Click on the city below to find our latest bed bug reports in Michigan on hotels. To report a new bed bug incident, navigate to our city page below to see further details.

Recommended tips after hotel check-in: 1. Pick up the mattresses in the rooms and look under it. Check around the edges of the box springs. 2. Check under the box spring. 3. Lift up each headboard an lay it on the bed. Carefully inspect the hole where the headboard was lifted out of. Also, inspect all niches and corners of the headboard. 4. If you decide to stay in the hotel, do not put any clothes in dressers. Keep them in your luggage and your dirty clothes in plastic bags.

08/30/19 found bed bug and baby....staff apologetic and moved us to room...next door. 9/1/19 found another bed bug...fell off pajamas. Collected the bed bug showed staff member, he was rude and didn'...

8/30/2019 After staying the first night at this condo, the next afternoon my daughter started experiencing some bites and a light rash appearance across her body. Late in the evening 8/31/19, the bite...

8/27/19 stayed overnight while moving kid to UMich. 2 double beds in room. Turned down first and it looked like dirt all over bedsheets. But second bed looked ok. Too tired to move rooms so left all b...

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FLINT, MI -- Officials at Mott Community College have removed chairs from a building on the Flint campus after they were notified of bed bugs found on the furniture.

An email sent out Friday, Oct. 18 by Jason Wilson, the colleges vice president of student success services, discusses the discovery of the bugs on Thursday in the Mott Memorial Building student lounge, room 2140.

The chairs have been removed and are being treated, reads the email addressed to faculty, staff, and students. "The other furniture has been secured and isolated from use."

The email further states Dr. Russell Bush, physician director for the colleges Health Services office, has provided resources about this issue.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Agriculture all consider bed bugs a public health pest, according to the EPA website. However, unlike most public health pests, bed bugs are not known to transmit or spread disease.

News of the bed bugs at Mott Community College adds to the list of Genesee County schools dealing with the matter.

Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools sent home information with students in recent days cautioning parents of bed bugs found Oct. 2 in a classroom at the districts high school, 1300 N. Linden Road, in Flint Township.

The district is operating under the guidance of the Genesee County Health Department and the Michigan Department of Community Health.

Eddie Kindle, superintendent of Carman Ainsworth Community Schools, stated in an Oct. 14 letter to parents that the health department advised schools not be closed due to bed bugs.

Finding a bed bug does not mean that the school building is infested, Kindle said.

However, the district always works to identify pests, provide thorough inspections of schools and have licensed pest control specialists to treat rooms as appropriate.

Steps Carman-Ainsworth is taking include:

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Bedbugs (Cimex lectularius) are humanparasites since they (mostly) feed on human blood. Adult bed bugs are reddish brown in color. They range in size from 1mm 7mm. If they havent eaten, theywill be flat oval in shape like an apple seed. You can tell they have fed onsomeones blood recently if they are inflated like a balloon, and are unusuallylong.

Nymphs (younger stages of bed bugs) will besmaller, translucent and whitish-yellow in color. Bed bugs do not fly or jump.They crawl and can be fast when they want to be.

Bedbugs are active mostly at night. During the daytime, they prefer to hide closeto where we sleep, rest or sit for long periods of time. Overall bed bugs wantto be as lazy as possible. It is not uncommon for hungry bed bugs to feed atany time of the day depending on our sleep schedule.

Bedbugs are not a sign of dirtiness. Bed bugs are not picky of who or what theyhitch a ride on. They are looking for the perfect conditions for them. Accessto a regular blood meal and temperatures in a range of 70-80 F. They dont careof theyre going back to a million dollar house on the water in Fort Gratiot ora small downtown apartment in Port Huron, Michigan.

Asbed bugs grow they molt five times shedding their outer exoskeleton before becomingan adult. A blood meal is needed between each stage. Adult females must feed tolay their eggs. After they mate, females lay oval white eggs about 1/16long in cracks and crevices. Usually, the eggs will hatch in 6-10 days to newlyemerging nymphs. Females can lay hundreds of eggs in her lifetime.

Adultbed bugs can survive up to a year without a blood meal as younger nymphs canonly survive for days to months. This makes them unique compared to otherinsects.

Unlike fleas that like to bite mostly on your feet, ankles, and legs bed bugs feed on any skin exposed while sleeping. It is common to find sets of 3 bites more in a zig-zag pattern. After having their blood meal, they retreat to a secluded location to digest their meal.

Manypeople develop an itchy red welt within a day or so of a bed bug bite.Everyones reaction is different, and symptom after being bitten vary fromperson to person. Some people do not react at all. Other times the reaction isdelayed for days.

Studiessuggest about 30% of people do not react even when bitten repeatedly over time.

Bed bugs often arise from nowhere. In most cases, our clients are not entirely sure how they got them. Bed bugs usually enter your home hitchhiking a ride on luggage, used furniture, backpacks, purses, on someones clothing.

Unfortunately, you can pick up bed bugs almost anywhere. You can get bed bugs from everyday locations from public transportation to movie theaters, and of course hotels and motels. Even just visiting a family member or friends house. Alternatively, a friend, co-workers or family member stopping by that has them.

Wherelocated in Port Huron, Michigan and the most common is picking up used itemsoff the street or traveling and bringing them back with you in your luggage.

Give us a call today to find out ways we can help you handle your bed bug problem.810-728-5858

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With the serious increase of bedbug infestations over the past decade, many victims of such infestations are wondering what the bedbug laws are in their state. Currently, twenty-two states have bedbug laws in the books. Several other states have bedbug legislation, or yet to be passed bedbug laws. Here is a compiled list:

*** Disclaimer*** The information provided in this article is for informational purposes only, and not for the purpose of providing legal advice. These are the bedbug laws as of March 11, 2013, and can change. If you feel that you have been a bedbug victim; whether landlord, tenant, or otherwise, please contact a licensed attorney who specializes in bedbug cases.

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Alabama Administrative Code 420-3-11-.12 Insect And Rodent Control: Section 2

Read more: http://www.alabamaadministrativecode.state.al.us/

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Arizona Revised Code 36-601 Public Nuisances Dangerous to Public Health.

Arizona Revised Code 9-500.31 Prohibition on adopting landlord tenant bedbug control requirements.

Arizona Revised Code 11-269.11 Prohibition on adopting landlord tenant bedbug control requirements.

Arizona Revised Code 33-1319 Bedbug control; landlord and tenant obligations; definitions.

Read more: http://www.azleg.gov/ars/36/00601.htm

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California Code Of Regulations 40- Bedding

Source: https://law.resource.org/pub/us/ccr/gov.ca.oal.title25.html

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Sec. 22a-46. Short title: Connecticut Pesticide Control Act

Read more: http://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap441.htm

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Florida Revised Code/Title VI/Civil Practice and Procedure/Chapter 83-

Landlord and Tenant

Read more: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?mode=View%20Statutes&Sub

The State of Illinois and the City of Chicago is in the process of drafting bedbug laws. The city of Chicago was recently labeled the #1 infested bedbug city in the U.S. The new laws are expected to be voted on March 13, 2013.

Illinois Proposed Bedbug Laws

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Iowa Administrative Rule 138.13 Conditions For Migrant Labor Camps Permits

Read more: http://law.justia.com/codes/iowa/2013/titleiv/subtitle2/chapter138/138-13/

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Kansas Administrative Regulations Article 36 /28-36-77.Food Service Establishments, Vending machines, and Lodging

Kansas Administrative Regulations Article 4-27-9 Bedbugs Imminent Health Hazard

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Maine Revised Statutes-Title 14: 6021-A. Treatment of Bedbug Infestation

Read more: http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/14/14/title14ch0sec0.html

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Michigan Administrative Code 400.57 Care Of Residents

Source: http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/env-res/state-bedbug-laws.aspx

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Minnesota Administrative Code 4625.1700 INSECT AND RODENT CONTROL

Minnesota Administrative Code 4665.2300 INSECT AND RODENT CONTROL

Read more: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/rules/?id=4625.1700&keyword_type=al

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Nebraska Administration of Rules & Regulations Title 175, Ch. 2, 004 SANITATION

Nebraska Administration of Rules & Regulations Title 175, Ch. 3, 004 HEALTH AND SAFETY REQUIREMENTS GENERAL

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Nevada Revised Code 447.030 Extermination

Nevada Revised Code 444 Sanitation

Read more: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Division/Legal/LawLibrary/NRS/NRS-447.html

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Revised Statute New York City

Administrative Code 27-2018.1 Notice of Bedbug Infestation History

New York Education Code/Article 19 MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICE 920. Public Schools

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Ohio Revised Code 3731.13 Bedding, floors, and carpets must be kept sanitary

Read more: http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/3731.13

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Pennsylvania Code 82.15 Insect Control

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Rhode Island Administrative Code 25-3-24:7 Rules & Regulations Relating To Pesticides

Read more: http://www.dem.ri.gov/pubs/regs/regs/agric/pestrg06.pdf

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South Dakota Administrative Code/44:02:08-Vacation Homes

Read more: http://legis.state.sd.us/rules/DisplayRule.aspx?Rule=44:02:08:05

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Texas Revised Code Sec. 341.011. NUISANCE

Texas Revised Code Sec. 341.012. ABATEMENT OF NUISANCE

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Utah Administrative Code Rule R392-200. Design, Construction, Operation, Sanitation, and Safety of Schools.

Read more: http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/code/r392/r392-200.htm

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West Virginia Revised Code 16-6-16 Bedbugs

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Wisconsin Administrative Code Department Health Services 190.08

Read more: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/code/admin_code/dhs/190.pdf

*** Disclaimer*** The information provided in this article is for informational purposes only, and not for the purpose of providing legal advice. These are the bedbug laws as of March 11, 2013, and can change. If feel that you have been a bedbug victim; whether landlord, tenant, or otherwise, please contact a licensed attorney who specializes in bedbug cases.

http://www.pestworld.org/media/3309/statebedbuglawsasofaug262011_2_.pdf

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