The NYC Health Department regresses
This year we saw small signs of what I thought was a new empathetic and knowledgeable grasp of the bed bug issues by NYC public health officials.
Month: September 2009
John Jay’s bed bug “condition”
Via City Room.
A library fine in Denver
$12,000 worth of destroyed books.
Bite sensitivity, ciao Johnson, post-feeding behavior, signals and more: ESA meeting abstracts
The Entomological Society of America holds its annual meeting in December and these are some of the bed bug presentations I could find on their decidedly not very user-friendly online program. Sadly, it’ll take years before anyone tells us anything … Continue reading
Apartment Staff Training Manual from CAA
The Columbus Apartment Association has been working on bed bug materials for a while. We previously looked, rather warily, at their compliance package.
“A continuous and sustained effort”: Q&A with Dr. Stephen W. Hwang
Dr. Stephen W. Hwang is a research scientist at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health, the Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital, and Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of … Continue reading
New York City Bed Bug Advisory Board
The members of the Bed Bug Advisory Board have been appointed and will meet this week. The Mayor appointed Gil Bloom of Standard Pest Management, Richard Cooper of Cooper Pest Solutions, and Jody L. Gangloff-Kaufmann of the NY State IPM … Continue reading
New case report of severe anemia in a patient with an advanced infestation
A new Canadian Medical Association Journal article reports on a patient who was ultimately hospitalized with severe anemia “almost certainly caused by ongoing blood loss from multiple bedbug bites.”
The vermin in the walls is wicked
One of the landmarks of British documentary film, the short film Housing Problems (1935) depicts the plight of people living in overcrowded and dilapidated housing. It is a slum clearance propaganda film and one worth thinking about. (It was funded … Continue reading
Millard’s Intercepting Trench Trap for Bugs
Millard invented a trap, should I have told you about that first? He named his trap the “Leicester Intercepting Trench Trap”: