Brief notes here.
There is a bed bug event in NYC in January! The Museum of the City of New York is hosting a panel — please see their announcement below. I am very pleased to be able to join Lou in participating in this public conversation about bed bugs in our city. The museum is offering a discount as noted below when you mention New York vs Bed Bugs. The discount is available when reserving by phone, not through the online reservation system. As details become available about the other panelists, I will update this post.
Final update 1/14/11: Program description with final panel revised below. Note the NY Entomological Society’s monthly meeting announcement about this event and a separate community bed bug forum also taking place on January 18.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 6:30 p.m.
Plague! Bed Bugs: Myths and Realities
Bed bugs, it seems, are all over New York City. In your mattress, your couch, that futon in the free pile at the end of your block. What is worse, they may have overrun your newspapers and even your TV screen. What’s hype and what’s reality? How big a problem are bed bugs, really? What is the city doing to stop them, and what can you do before they take over your apartment? Moderator Dr. Amy L. Fairchild, Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, heads a discussion that includes entomologist Louis Sorkin of the New York Entomological Society; Gale A. Brewer Council Member from District 6; Renee Corea, former Director of New York vs Bed Bugs; David Cain, Managing Director of Bed Bugs Ltd, London; Yasmine Hecker, CEO of Prep 4 Bed Bugs, and Ray Lopez, Little Sisters of Assumption Family Health Service of how the recent plague of bed bugs is affecting city life and culture. Co-sponsored by the New York Entomological Society.
Reservations required: 917-492-3395 or e-mail programs@mcny.org.
$6 museum members; $8 seniors and students; $12 non-members
$6 when you mention New York vs Bed BugsMuseum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
New York, NY 10029
www.mcny.org
212-534-1672
Too far from Italy… sigh…
That’s very kind, Franco. I will be sure to try to take notes and post impressions. David will also be here but I’m waiting for further details.
Google tells me I can wish you un Felice Anno Nuovo…
Bed Bugs have been mankind’s companions throughout our history. They are part of our natural and normal existence. The only reason we were free of them for approximately 70 years was the use of DDT and other potent Organophosphate insecticides commonly used for general pest control. The lack of these protections leaves us vulnerable to bed bugs, which are being introduced through increased international travel, especially to and from the far east, where bed bugs are plentiful. Now that we eschew all things chemical and have opted for a more natural existence we are getting what we asked for; a more natural existence, with our old night-time companions. That natural existence also includes other parasites, like mosquitoes who carry Malaria, West Nile, Yellow Fever, Dengue Fever, Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever and Encephalitis, to name just a few. Enjoy natural living everyone!
Hi Harry, I’m particularly sensitive to one aspect of your comment, so I have to say that there is actually no evidence that bed bugs have been introduced to the United States (implying they were non-existent here, which is certainly not the case) through increased international travel to and from East Asia. By the logic of where bed bugs are currently plentiful, it seems intuitively correct to say that travelers from the United States are the source of bed bugs in other parts of the world — and in other countries people have been asserting that for some time now. While both may be true (the United States as principal recipient as well as giver of bed bugs), the silliness of the whole enterprise should quickly be apparent. Maybe we should just come to terms with the fact that we all have bed bugs now, and some of us are less equipped to fight them than others.
I had my first BBs case (Milano, Italy) in 2004, and it came from Paris.
There is an official doc of WHO that says that the greater part of BBs strains in the whole world in early ’80s where DDT resistant.
http://nyentsoc.org/monthly.htm
link from our website
Thanks, Lou, updated.
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Did anyone get to see Community bed bug forum in Council District 2 on the 18th and also the other presentation on the 19th?
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You post the exact same paragraph on almost every subject.