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One student back for the fall semester is warning others that long-term bedbug infestations can go unchecked in Halifax, even as unwitting new tenants move in.

After losing about $5,000 worth of belongings, Sara Lampinen says too much is at stake to allow lax pest control.

At the beginning of August, Lampinen arrived from Edmonton to sublet an apartment for seven months in Ocean Towers on Brunswick Street.

Just days after she moved in, she started getting bites.

The infestation was so bad that Lampinen, 23, could see bedbugs crawling around on her bed. She talked to building management and offered to show them her bites.

They said, No, no, we already know what they look like, she said.

They said they did have bedbug problems before, but they werent in the unit that I was in. So they obviously knew that there were bedbug infestations within the apartment building.

She only lasted three weeks in the apartment before giving up and moving out Friday. She said she threw out thousands of dollars worth of furniture and bedding, and her clothes needed to be specially laundered.

Managers at the building, which is owned by Toronto company CAPREIT, first arranged for Lampinens apartment to be sprayed, but she said the one-time treatment didnt clear up the problem.

Bedbugs can live in walls and easily travel between apartments, and pest control experts often recommend treating a whole building or a whole section of a building rather than a single unit.

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Updated: Friday, April 4 2014, 08:14 PM EDT

Toronto, OH -

Parents of Toronto High School students were informed of a bed bug being found on a student on Tuesday, leaving them with questions about what the school is doing to make sure the school is clear of bed bugs.

Toronto City Schools superintendent Fred Burns wants parents to know that they have taking all the necessary precautions and he wants to bust the myths about bed bugs.

We have confirmed a case of bedbugs. It occurred here on Tuesday. We actually took it and had it analyzed by Rose Pest Control and they confirmed it was a bed bug, Burns said.

On Wednesday, a dog trained to find bed bugs came to sniff the school buildings for signs of these pests and Rose Pest Solutions came to make sure there were no signs of any bed bugs.

The dogs sniffed out the fact that it could have possibly had the odor of being on somebodys shoe. They definitely didnt find anything in searching the area in both buildings, Burns said.

Local exterminators said its a difficult process to get rid of bed bugs and anyone can get them.

Definitely a difficult process, one of the main things that I think is the biggest problem with the bed bugs is people not being aware that they are here, its a very big issue. Theres stigmas that go along with bed bugs as far as people being dirty and other things like that and thats totally untrue. Anybody and everybody is susceptible to getting bed bugs, T.J. Wright, a lead exterminator for the Pest Detective said.

Burns wants parents to know that their children are safe in the school.

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School takes precautionary measures for bed bugs

TORONTO - The administration at the city junior/senior high school is taking precautions today after bedbugs were discovered in a classroom Tuesday.

One of the bugs was subsequently taken to Rose Pest Control to be identified after several small bugs were discovered in a classroom. School officials believe they've also discovered the source of the pests, according to Maureen Taggart, school principal and district communications coordinator. and Fred Burns, superintendent.

"Rose Pest Control is coming in today," Burns said.

Taggart sent an e-mail to parents notifying them of the discovery as well as precautions taken to minimize the risk of the bugs spreading. In the e-mail, Taggart told parents a student had been taken to the school nurse, items were removed from that student's locker and the room was closed to pupils and students to be disinfected.

"The Jefferson County Health Department was notified," reads the e-mail. "They indicated that we had taken all the recommended precautionary measures. They said that students are no more at risk of picking up these bugs while attending school than they are going to a movie theater, restaurant, grocery store or other public facility."

"This was probably brought in by the student's coat," said Burns, adding several small bite marks were discovered on the student's skin. "(Rose Pest Control) will come in today with dogs specifically trained to detect bedbugs. We can't spray the room yet because the dog wouldn't then be able to detect any bedbugs.

"That family (of the student) is staying home until they are checked out," continued Burns, adding the family will be checked by physicians.

"(The bugs) like to be in the dark," said Burns, adding bedbugs today have a stigma similar to lice. "It could happen to anybody."

Wikipedia defines bedbugs as "parasitic insects of the cimicid family that feed exclusively on blood." Bed bugs are mainly active at night, but are not exclusively nocturnal. They usually feed on their hosts without being noticed.

A number of adverse health effects may result from bed bug bites, including skin rashes, psychological effects and allergic symptoms. Diagnosis involves both finding bed bugs and the occurrence of compatible symptoms."

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