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Commercial Infestation Articles
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Can't sleep? The bed bugs may be biting
Although bed bugs can prosper in almost any type of building, hotels and motels are particularly vulnerable because of the transient nature of their clients and the ease with which the insects travel in luggage, clothing and furniture. ...
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05-12-05 |
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Bed Bugs
Once thought to be eradicated from North America, the legendary little pests known as bed bugs have been making an unwelcome comeback in hotels and homes. Lest you think bed bugs are relegated to fleabag motels, they have been spotted in the posher locales as well
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Charlyn Keating Chisholm |
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Woman Sues Hotel After Suffering 500 Bed Bug Bites
Last year, there were reports of serious bed bug infestations in dozens of states. Now, a Chicago woman is suing a hotel for $20 million after waking up one morning with more than 500 bed bug bites
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Mary Ann Childers |
03-07-06
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Bed bugs demand swift, thorough response
Handling a hotel's least favorite little traveler, the bed bug, requires prompt attention and cooperation between hotel staff and pest-control companies ...
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Stacey Mieyal Higgins |
04-04-05 |
Sleep Tight: Battling Bedbugs
By now, many travelers have heard about the Chicago woman who's suing a Catskills hotel for $20 million because of all the bedbug bites she says she got there. Hers was apparently an extreme case -- she claims she got about 500 itchy, burning bites during a three-night stay. But the lawsuit (and a handful of similar ones in the United States over the past few years) has drawn big attention to the tiny critter -- one that's increasingly been making its presence known to travelers since the early 1990s. ... |
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03-26-06 |
Bothersome bed bugs bounce back
The bugs are living in homes, apartments, hotels, motels, dormitories, shelters and buses all across America, according to Michael Potter, entomologist with the University of Kentucky's College of Agriculture
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John Faherty
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12-02-05 |
Just Try to Sleep Tight. The Bedbugs Are Back.
But bedbugs on Park Avenue? Ask the horrified matron who recently found her duplex teeming with the blood-sucking beasts. Or the tenants of a co-op on Riverside Drive who spent $200,000 earlier this month to purge their building of the pesky little thugs. The Helmsley Park Lane was sued two years ago by a welt-covered guest who blamed the hotel for harboring the critters. The suit was quietly settled last year ... |
ANDREW JACOBS |
11-27-05 |
Bed bugs bite and cause monetary damages to local family
There is an old saying, a rhyme, that goes, "Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite." Unfortunately for one local family, they bit, and bit, and bit.
A woman named Shannon (she asked us not to use her last name) out of Atlantic Beach has recently moved back into her home after leaving because of a bed bug infestation... |
Jamie Muro
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09-25-06 |
Hoteliers bite back bed bugs
They are also an increasing problem in the hospitality industry, which is directing money toward staff education, pest control and room refurbishing in an effort to prevent and eliminate the unwelcome critters.Thousands of dollars in research funds have been funneled to universities in Virginia and Kentucky to figure out how to end the problem once and for all...
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Ellen G. Lahr, Berkshire |
09-25-06 |
Bed bugs force students to flee dorm rooms
Students took the clothes they needed for several days and were provided free
laundry services to clean them, according to Pete Armstrong, director of
residential life. The students were then asked to go to the Health and Wellness Center to have their bites checked and were asked to recall any other rooms they had visited or other students who had spent time in their rooms...
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Krystal Fowler
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09-26-06
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Family Sues Store Over Bedbugs
The Downeys have filed a $500,000 federal lawsuit. They told the Boston Herald that bedbugs have taken over their home, forcing them to throw out just about everything.... |
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09-25-06 |
Bedbugs take a bite out of travel comfort
Last month, a suburban Chicago couple filed suit against a Four Points by Sheraton near the San Francisco airport, claiming they woke to find bugs in their bed, bath towels and luggage. This summer, another Chicago woman filed a $20 million lawsuit against the Nevele Grande in Ellenville, N.Y., saying her body and mind were scarred after she suffered some 500 bedbug bites while staying at the Catskills resort last year. And land-based lodgings aren't the only ones affected: Last year, a Florida couple sued Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines after their cruise was cut short by what they claimed was a severe infestation in ....
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