Originally published February 23 2006
Bedbug problem is being reported worldwide
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The National Pest Management Association provides information about the current epidemic of bedbugs that is impacting the globe, and in particular, according to expert Jeffrey Eisenberg, New York City.
Legions of tiny blood-sucking bugs are munching their way through the Big Apple, making this the city that never sleeps ...
Authorities say it's a global crisis: Exterminators who handled one or two bedbug calls a year are now getting that many in a week, according to the National Pest Management Association.
"There's an epidemic going on throughout the country, and New York seems to be the hotbed," said Jeffrey Eisenberg, a pest control expert.
They invade even the cleanest apartments and swankiest neighborhoods, including Manhattan's Upper West Side, where a city councilwoman is calling for a citywide bedbug task force.
"We've always had pests in New York City _ we have rats, cockroaches, etcetera, but bedbugs are new," said Councilwoman Gail Brewer.
The pests are efficient and active travelers, often hitching a ride on people's clothing and jumping from host to host when people brush up against each on the subway, in elevators or on crowded streets.
A New Yorker and his landlord wound up in court over an infestation in his Lower East Side apartment, where he fruitlessly tried everything to get rid of the relentless buggers.
"Now it's just us against these bugs," said Sofia Sapinha, a 20-year- old junior at a New Jersey college where her dorm room has been infested since September.
Between calls to campus officials and visits from the exterminator, she and her roommate have tried their own tactics, including covering her mattress in a zippered plastic cover and greasing bedposts with Vaseline to keep the bugs from crawling up.
The legislation calls for a ban on reconditioning mattresses _ essentially taking old ones, refurbishing them and selling them like new, often spreading the bugs into stores and homes.
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