The provincial government of Ontario bed bug website that was announced as part of the new funding push to fight bed bugs in the province is now live: bedbugsinfo.ca. See The Star, our brief note and do take a look … Continue reading
The Star is reporting that the Province of Ontario will fund educational and assistance programs for the province with 5 million dollars. Local public health units will be able to apply for funds and the province will fund a public … Continue reading
The group’s Final Report and Recommendations to the Governor and Ohio General Assembly was released today. See The Columbus Dispatch and WLWT Cincinnati for news coverage and to download the report.
The Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force held its third annual bed bug summit on October 20.
Update: Ohio’s Section 18 exemption filing was announced at the summit.
I hope you are checking the website of the Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force every now and then. If you live in a place, like we do, where there’s nothing like it, you can borrow and learn from them.
The Michigan Bed Bug Working Group has published a bed bug management flow chart (PDF)—additional working group materials are available at Michigan’s Emerging Diseases Issues website; see also our previous discussion of some documents that describe the goals and genesis … Continue reading
The Greater London Pest Liaison Group’s Beating Bedbugs best practice guides are finally out and you may download them on the group’s new website.
Nobugs has a nice post taking note of the remarkable news from New Hampshire of a new organization that will begin its work by taking on the eradication of bed bugs from a Manchester building as a community project.
I found these background notes (PDF) on the website of the Property Management Association of West Michigan (PMAM); they describe the efforts of a workgroup on bed bugs brought together by the Michigan Department of Community Health. The first meeting … Continue reading