April 15th, 2009
EPA holding conference on bed bugs as infestations rise
Posted: 10:51 AM ET
(CNN) — No matter the old adage, not letting the bed bugs bite is a more serious undertaking now that the parasites appear to be making a comeback.
“They’re an old scourge” and they’ve been around for years, said Dale Kemery, a spokesman for the Environmental Protection Agency. “We thought we had eradicated them.”
A growing number of complaints about the reddish-brown insects prompted the EPA to hold its first bed bug conference on Tuesday and Wednesday.
“The conference was convened to look at what the problem is,” Kemery said. He said about 230 people, including academics, EPA employees and exterminators were attending the conference in Arlington, Virginia.
The big problem of the tiny bed bug — a nocturnal, oval-shaped bloodsucker measuring about 5 millimeters long (.19 inches) — has recently become more prevalent in the United States, according to Kemery and an April article in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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The scene begins with a mattress factory, the beds are being build piece by piece, stitching machines cranking out the beds. The visualization starts at the beginning of the process, following a premium mattress version moving throught the noisy factory. A pillowtop design with extra fancy stitching and artistic embellishments. (some really cool song screams out through this scene).
Then the beautiful new mattresses are shrink wrapped in a heavy durable plastic and labeled with the stringent UL certification bolded printed on the labels. The finest mattress money can buy, but there was one problem. A tiny nest of fresh bedbug eggs was scattered throughout the factory in the bats of cotton from the source they had come from. All these mattresses were shipped all over North America and also shipped abroad around the world. This scenero really happened several years ago to one of he major players in the bedding industry. Now every state has been plagued by these monster creatures, but there is also another catch.
Early in the process, a form of DDT was used in the steramine process that also had come from a faulty source that had cause a nuclear holacaust effect, the small bed bugs were now the size of bowling balls and the larger ones were up to the size of a Volkswagon Beetle. It is really like a scene from "The Revenge of the Killer Tomatoes".
The scene begins with a mattress factory, the beds are being built piece by piece, stitching machines cranking out the beds. The visualization starts at the beginning of the process, following a premium mattress version moving throughout the noisy factory. A pillowtop design with extra fancy stitching and artistic embellishments. (some really cool song screams out through this scene).
Then the beautiful new mattresses are shrink wrapped in a heavy durable plastic and labeled with the stringent UL certification bold printed on the labels. The finest mattress money can buy, but there was one problem. A tiny nest of fresh bedbug eggs was scattered throughout the factory in the bats of cotton from the source they had come from. All these mattresses were shipped all over North America and also shipped abroad around the world. This scenerio happened several years ago to one of he major players in the bedding industry. Now every state has been plagued by these monster creatures, but there is also another catch.
Early in the process, a form of DDT was used in the steramine process that also had come from a faulty source that had cause a nuclear holacaust effect, the small bed bugs were now the size of bowling balls and the larger ones were up to the size of a Volkswagon Beetle. It is really like a scene from "The Revenge of the Killer Tomatoes".
Sleep Tight.....The Bedbug Blog
The scene begins with a mattress factory, the beds are being build piece by piece, stitching machines cranking out the beds. The visialization starts at the begining of the process, following a premium mattress version moving throught the noisy factory. A pillowtop design with extra fancy stitching and artistic embellishments. (some really cool song screams out through this scene).
Then the beautiful new mattresses are shrink wrapped in a heavy durable plastic and labeled with the stringent UL certification bolded printed on the labels. The finest mattress money can buy, but there was one problem. A tiny nest of fresh bedbug eggs was scattered throughout the factory in the bats of cotton from the source they had come from. All these mattresses were shipped all over North America and also shipped abroad around the world. This scenero really happened several years ago to one of he major players in the bedding industry. Now every state has been plagued by these monster creatures, but there is also another catch.
Early in the process, a form of DDT was used in the steramine process that also had come from a faulty source that had cause a nuclear holacaust effect, the small bed bugs were now the size of bowling balls and the larger ones were up to the size of a Volkswagon Beetle. It is really like a scene from "The Revenge of the Killer Tomatoes".
There was a story on television last year where they were going undercover in NYC, finding sellers of “reconditioned” mattresses where, the entire mattress was to be overhauled and reassebled with complete new cotton and mess and all new surfaces. What the report revealed was that the company that was doing the reconditioning were only recovering the mattresses with new fabric and leaving the old bedbug ridden mattress full of live bedbugs and eggs ready to be hatched. The average life of a bedbud could be several years, and the hungry bugs can live in dormancy for over 18 months without moving or feeding. Bedbugs only feed on human blood, unlike other creatures that eat a wide variety of food, skin or liquids, bedbugs have survived like cockroaches since literally the begining of the human race. At this time in America they are literally in epic porportions. Every state reports of current bedbug epidemics. No one, home, hotel room, cars, are exempt. The bedbug itself remain in an isolated “coma” if you may until they smell the carbon monozide of the human while they are sleeping and wait to pounce when a person is totally unsuspecting.
Then the beautiful new mattresses are shrink wrapped in a heavy durable plastic and labeled with the stringent UL certification bolded printed on the labels. The finest mattress money can buy, but there was one problem. A tiny nest of fresh bedbug eggs was scattered throughout the factory in the bats of cotton from the source they had come from. All these mattresses were shipped all over North America and also shipped abroad around the world. This scenero really happened several years ago to one of he major players in the bedding industry. Now every state has been plagued by these monster creatures, but there is also another catch.
Early in the process, a form of DDT was used in the steramine process that also had come from a faulty source that had cause a nuclear holacaust effect, the small bed bugs were now the size of bowling balls and the larger ones were up to the size of a Volkswagon Beetle. It is really like a scene from "The Revenge of the Killer Tomatoes".
There was a story on television last year where they were going undercover in NYC, finding sellers of “reconditioned” mattresses where, the entire mattress was to be overhauled and reassebled with complete new cotton and mess and all new surfaces. What the report revealed was that the company that was doing the reconditioning were only recovering the mattresses with new fabric and leaving the old bedbug ridden mattress full of live bedbugs and eggs ready to be hatched. The average life of a bedbud could be several years, and the hungry bugs can live in dormancy for over 18 months without moving or feeding. Bedbugs only feed on human blood, unlike other creatures that eat a wide variety of food, skin or liquids, bedbugs have survived like cockroaches since literally the begining of the human race. At this time in America they are literally in epic porportions. Every state reports of current bedbug epidemics. No one, home, hotel room, cars, are exempt. The bedbug itself remain in an isolated “coma” if you may until they smell the carbon monozide of the human while they are sleeping and wait to pounce when a person is totally unsuspecting.
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