Bedbugs In Our Libraries

[Rockslinger]

http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/exclusive...-toronto-libraries-documents-reveal-1.1439087

Bedbugs are becoming a real problem in Toronto.

I know someone whose daughter is a paramedic who goes into people's homes all the time. She is so concerned about bedbugs that she changes and showers before she comes home just in case she picked up some bedbugs on one of her calls.

 

[Aardvark154]

My concern about hotel rooms when I'm in Toronto grows.


Also the article would make one think that the Bed Bugs sprang forth like Athena from the brow of Zeus, rather than having come in via travelers from third world countries. Thirty years ago who the Devil heard of Bed Bugs in North America!

 

[gcostanza]

Sleep tight!

 

[nobody123]

Also the article would make one think that the Bed Bugs sprang forth like Athena from the brow of Zeus, rather than having come in via travelers from third world countries.

Out of all the possible explanations for the resurgence of bedbugs, you have to go pick the one that points the finger at them thar nasty dirty foreign foreigners. Nevermind that it was DDT (now banned) that led to their decrease in numbers from 1930 - 1980, and that there are a number of other plausible explanations for the recent resurgence (bedbugs jumping from non human hosts back to the human population, the banning of pretty much all pesticides, increased resistance to the remaining methods of elimination, etc etc)

Congratulations, you receive the acutus "post of the day" award.

 

[Aardvark154]

Out of all the possible explanations for the resurgence of bedbugs, you have to go pick the one that points the finger at them thar nasty dirty foreign foreigners. Nevermind that it was DDT (now banned) that led to their decrease in numbers from 1930 - 1980, and that there are a number of other plausible explanations for the recent resurgence (bedbugs jumping from non human hosts back to the human population, the banning of pretty much all pesticides, increased resistance to the remaining methods of elimination, etc etc)

Congratulations, you receive the acutus "post of the day" award.

Which flies in the face of everything I've read. Are you accusing The Times (London), The Daily Telegraph (London), The New York Times, and The Washington Post not to mention Time Magazine of all being 'racist/xenophobic'?

Oh by the way I didn't say that DDT wasn't responsible for initially throwning Bed Bugs for a loop in North America.

 

[Smash]

The reality is you can catch them from anywhere/anyone. Movie theater seats, TTC bus/subway, ANY restaurant seating, at your workplace, family/ friends house even if they are clean they could of picked them up from any public place and brought them home.

They do not discriminate or care how rich or poor you are. My advice if you see them in your house. Call an exterminator and follow his/her directions on how to prepare your place for fumigation. It's a real bitch but you'll have to take ALL of your cloths and put them in garbage bags and tie them up. Then as your place is being sprayed you'll have to wash them all in hot water. The more furniture you have the harder it is to get all of them because they are masters at hiding. They will even hide in you wall outlets, inside your PC, under your dresser etc.etc.

They are a real pain to get rid of but not impossible... The shitty thing is you could spend $1000.'s on hiring an exterminator and go through all the steps and all it takes is one trip to the movie theater to watch the new Batman movie and you could bring one back home with you and have to go through the whole ordeal again. Arghh

 

[nobody123]

Which flies in the face of everything I've read. Are you accusing The Times (London), The Daily Telegraph (London), The New York Times, and The Washington Post not to mention Time Magazine of all being 'racist/xenophobic'?

I'm surprised and disappointed if that is the only explanation them there allegedly august publications offered. It didn't take much effort to find other possible explanations as well. Hell, even if travellers are a significant vector, who is to say it is not first world travellers returning from 3rd world visits, rather than those nogoodnik 3rd worlders themselves directly?

Oh by the way I didn't say that DDT wasn't responsible for initially throwning Bed Bugs for a loop in North America.

You also didn't say chocolate is delicious or that Santa Claus is or isn't real. There's a lot you didn't say. We could spend several eternities mulling over what you didn't say. What you did say, however, was that travellers from 3rd world countries are the reason we have such a bedbug problem nowadays.

 

[blackrock13]

This wasn't story back in 2010, as anyone who works with historic manuscripts and book knows, and it's not news now, but hey.

 

[Aardvark154]

What you did say, however, was that travellers from 3rd world countries are the reason we have such a bedbug problem nowadays.

I surely did say that travelers from Third World Countries were largely responsible for the reintroduction of Bed Bugs to North America and stand by that statement. Now as you point out travelers from Third World Countries do not have to be nationals of Third World Countries, nor did I say that they had to be.

 

[Rockslinger]

This wasn't story back in 2010, as anyone who works with historic manuscripts and book knows, and it's not news now, but hey.

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