Bed Bugs Becoming A National Epidemic (VIDEO)

Bed bugs are becoming a national epidemic.

The CBS News Early Show reports that across the country, bed bug infestations are becoming so common that exterminators can barely keep up.

Manchester, NH even started an Action Committee tasked with bringing the issue under control. Big name retailers like Victoria's Secret and Abercrombie and Fitch have been treated for bed bugs (Abercrombie on more than one occasion), and the video reports that the bugs have NOTHING to do with cleanliness.

The bugs, which are small parasitic insects, can live up to a year without feeding.

WATCH:

Comments

[a5713386]

08:36 PM on 08/14/2010

Isn't it obvious that these things are coming from the hoards of illegals living in filth? Notice the correlation between illegals packing the slums and the increase in the bedbug population? You might also notice how all that happens to coincide with the increase in national debt, unemployment rate, foreclosure rate, H1N1, etc. This isn't rocket science, people...

[brooklyncitizen]

01:06 PM on 08/21/2010

you are right no scientific logic to your claims at all.

[cybersleuth58]

06:33 PM on 08/26/2010

Feminists, pro-choicers, gays brought us Katrina? Illegals bring us bedbugs? Why face a problem head-on when we can find a scape goat? A group of people in Germany used to blame people in their population for such things and we ended up with the Holocaust.

[jallobeh]

01:17 PM on 07/23/2010

Bed bugs do not get glued on to luggage or attached to skin like ticks do, They are crawlers that hitch a ride on items of furniture, clothing and move on to other locations (harborages).
They tap and feed on mammalian blood (humans, pets, rodents) and typically feed and let go. Thus the red spots in a row on the skin.
Forget about bed bug traps and other contraptions!! A waste of resources. Be vigilant and inspect your bed (mattress, sheets, pillows and box spring) weekly at home for signs of the live bugs or tell-tale signs of their presence (dark brown spots in corners and along binding)!!
Once bed bugs are suspected, SEEK PROFESSIONAL HELP to identify and treat IMMEDIATELY (jump on it) before it gets full blown!
Forget the hype about no remedy for bed bugs. They can be eliminated by exterminators.
You can help yourself by reducing clutter, throwing out infested items and cleaning up once an infestation has been determined. Do not bring infested items back into your home before they have been thoroughly cleaned and treated to kill the bugs.
Think about where the bugs may have originated from so you may avoid re-infestation.
As a rule, an exterminator needs to do 3 visits/treatments at 10-14 day intervals on account of the pest habits and biology. The object is to catch all the evolving stages of the pest including the eggs that are the ONLY STAGE THAT IS GLUED TO OBJECTS.

[athenalong]

04:08 PM on 07/23/2010

very useful info. thanks!

[TankGirlz]

12:19 PM on 07/28/2010

Do you happen to know, I was googling "Bugs that lay eggs on ceiling" and results came back with Bedbugs. Is that what is on my ceiling??

[HarryCase]

06:38 PM on 07/22/2010

By the early 1950’s bed bugs were nearly eliminated from the North American continent as a result of the widespread use of DDT. Their numbers were so decimated that generations raised after that time thought they were a myth, perpetuated in a nursery rhyme. Unfortunately, bed bugs are very real. The banning of DDT and the marked increase in international travel, have rapidly given us a resurgence of these nasty pests. Their increase started slowly at first, sort of like the front side of a bell curve, but then accelerated and intensified. We now appear to be on the steep and rapidly rising back side of the curve, with no idea of when the population will peak or when the curve will flatten out. Read the entire post at: http://pestcontrolcenter.com/blog/?p=455

[Robert Turner]

10:40 AM on 07/22/2010

Great! Now I've got to scratch something!

[Knothare1230]

09:12 AM on 07/22/2010

Hmm, you see one on Monday and by Wednesday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBim1j1tVbE

[dan hodges]

08:38 AM on 07/22/2010

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[studmoose]

07:05 AM on 07/22/2010

Before you travel anywhere:

http://www.bedbugregistry.com/

Check out your hotel to see if it had reports of bedbugs!

[wilray]

12:42 PM on 07/22/2010

Thanks. I see they also list Apartments. I live in a condo.

Anyway. I think I will invest in a steamer - just in case.

[ScapeGoat]

06:59 AM on 07/22/2010

It would be a shame if they infect glen beck's house.

[mspink]

07:09 AM on 07/22/2010

Just sayin'!

[Lamirabelle]

05:39 AM on 07/22/2010

If you need free advice, contact me (unless you're a company, then I'll charge you ;)). I know how to get rid of them but prepare yourself for drastic measures! Starting with a spring cleaning like you've never seen one, throwing away lots of stuff (starting with your mattress) and hoping for a freezing winter. And let's not forget the right chemicals (here only one shop sells them and pretty expensive). And....
If you follow this no need for a pest control company. And you'll be rid of your domestic allergies too.

[roderickjanes]

02:26 AM on 07/22/2010

"Sleep tight. Don't let the bedbugs bite"
WE DIDN'T LISTEN!

[Matt Corbin]

02:30 AM on 07/22/2010

Damn. Knowing full well it had been done a million times i still came in here expecting to make the joke.

[PORK RIND]

01:52 AM on 07/22/2010

Hey - but, on the upside, our sexy, young and charming (and leggy) Secretary of State DID stay at the Holiday Inn in Islamabad, handing our our tax money to our pro-Al Qaeda cronies left and right, some $2 billion, I reckon.

While all this global generosity is going on, we have no money to prevent our own population from living in squalor, endemic poverty, vermin and disease.

Bedbugs are God's way of telling us that our political system reeks of some serious fecal discharge.

[cartach]

01:58 AM on 07/22/2010

Especially during the previous eight year long Republican administration. That was one long bedbug infestation that sucked the lifeblood from the nation and the aftereffects will continue for some time to come.

[PORK RIND]

02:05 AM on 07/22/2010

Last time I spoke with bedbugs, they appeared to be either "bipartisan" or "centrist". The bedbug problem is not of partisan nature. Both Republican and Democrat bedbugs suck.

Literally.

[peterla]

05:23 AM on 07/22/2010

Agreed. This Bedbug infestation is the symtom of the 8 years of destruction of this country by an ex amateur politician, failed businessman, and frat boy that seduced a percentage of this nation to keep him in power for 8 ruinous years, of which we may never recover.

All Obama can do right now is manage the blowback from the Bush years and that, my friends will take time.. people expect quick turnarounds and will blame obama for not turning it all around right away.. when the reality is THAT much damage has been done in the past 8 years. It will take 2-3 presidents from now to undue that much damage.

[esteban notyard]

03:29 AM on 07/22/2010

Gods punishment. HMMM, Seems like ive heard that before from you guys.

[PORK RIND]

09:04 AM on 07/22/2010

I was just being cynical, you big dummy...let the poor old bearded guy sitting on the cloud alone.

[Vlad Tepes]

01:33 AM on 07/22/2010

Disgusting

[G52]

01:20 AM on 07/22/2010

My Dad said that in the days before DDT folks use to put shallow pans of kerosene under the beds to keep them away. Never had to try it and it may be folklore. I wonder if that's healthy to breathe kerosene though?

[Notsosurearewe]

01:39 AM on 07/22/2010

Nope. It'll make you not wake up .. ever.

[cartach]

02:00 AM on 07/22/2010

Especially if you drop a lit cigarette butt into the pan.

[G52]

02:27 AM on 07/22/2010

Bed bug problem solved!

[wilray]

02:06 AM on 07/22/2010

sounds like a good way to start a fire.

[G52]

02:28 AM on 07/22/2010

I am thankful this is not the 1800s!

[glenaypia]

01:18 AM on 07/22/2010

noooooo not seattle!

[Pinkasaurus]

01:09 AM on 07/22/2010

One of the young women in my graduate program had bed bugs. She had pretty nasty looking bites all over her arms and legs from them. She was told she would have to cover her mattress in plastic to suffocate the bugs, and that it would take a while for them to die. She ended up sleeping on the futon in her living room for months until she could afford to buy a new mattress.

[wilray]

02:21 AM on 07/22/2010

You either have to cook them or freeze them. Bedbugs can't build up a tolerance to extreme heat so your have to steam them or use cryonite. That also has the advantage of not having toxic residue that could harm kids or pets.

http://www.bedbugsupply.com/Steamer_c_17.html?gclid=CNvWnp-9_qICFRJNagod7W_5bA

[henrypapillon]

05:21 AM on 07/22/2010

I saw something about college kids building a bedbug trap. It was as good as the commercial traps. The bedbugs are attracted to the CO2 from humans, so the kids used a small amount of dry ice to simulate that and the had it set up so the bed bugs entered the medium that trapped them.

[Lamirabelle]

05:43 AM on 07/22/2010

When it's minus 10°C open your windows for 3 days. Or put all your furniture outdoors. I mean ALL.