New York vs Bed Bugs

We need help from New Yorkers interested in helping advocate for change. We need help from New Yorkers who are suffering from bed bugs or who have suffered from bed bugs in the past to write letters to their elected representatives.
And we also need help from those who can volunteer time to our efforts. [...]

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Let’s recap what we learned this week:

The New York Department of State has said that it does not intend to publish mattress sanitizing regulations because doing so would constitute an effective ban on reconditioned mattresses.
The city’s Department of Consumer Affairs believes that poor New Yorkers—those who are least able to afford illness or the costs [...]

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Dateline’s investigative piece today revisited the reconditioned mattress problems in New York City.
In 1996, 19 states had laws in place regulating the sale of reconditioned mattresses. This year that number is up to 26. We started our investigation in New York, where state law requires them to be labeled clearly with yellow tags [...]

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We want to review the pest management challenges posed by bed bugs, and give you a clear idea of where we stand on possible policy approaches and solutions, but there is yet one more thing to get out of the way: the question of whether bed bugs, which are not known to be vectors of [...]

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Although personal calls and letters are the most effective means of reaching out to our elected representatives, we know many of you don’t have time to write letters or make phone calls. Bed bugs have that effect on our time commitments and ability to get things done.
So, for those of you who want an [...]

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The Washington Post has posted a correction:
Correction to This Article
The article about bedbugs said that 500 of the 2,500 bedbug complaints lodged with the New York City Housing Authority between 2005 and 2007 turned out to be actual infestations. After taking a closer look at its records, the authority now says it did not keep [...]

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We believe strongly that the insect should not be allowed to crawl over children while they are sleeping. We took the position two years ago that (bedbugs) are a public health crisis.
-Chris Eddy, Environmental Health Director, Hamilton County, Ohio
The Cincinnati Post, September 6, 2007
Cincinnati established a Bedbug Remediation Commission in September 2007. A [...]

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Yikes, I missed something important.
Jennifer 8. Lee’s January 16 post about the New York City bed bug seminars:
Since July, the city’s 311 hot line has registered 4,000 complaints about the nocturnal blood-sucking creatures, 1,700 of which resulted in violations issued to building owners across the city.
That is a much more brisk pace, even compared to [...]

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