Bed Bugs Feasting On You

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It has become a major problem here in Miami Beach as well as NYC and other places as most of you already know...It only seems to be getting worse by the day...They are even in most of the 5 star hotels...People have been eaten up in the Fontainebleau luxury resort in Miami Beach as well as in the Doubletree and Embassy Suites in other nearby counties...Always inspect the beds for dry blood before climbing in.

My niece who lives on 4TH Ave in Bay Ridge Brooklyn just had a major problem with the bed bugs as they were all in the walls of the building.
 
Even luxury hotels are quietly running priceline and other promos and this attracts more trashy clients. The other end of the price spectrum is not much better though. Just talked to the door crew at Governor Hotel in Portland, OR. They are horrified: one suit has been infested by a TV serial star. Those folks are known to leave drug paraphernalia and condoms in the coffee cups after they leave. Now the lousy actors added bed bugs.
 
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Most householders of this generation have never seen a bed bug. Until recently, they also were a rarity among pest control professionals. Bed bug infestations were common in the United States before World War II. But with improvements in hygiene, and especially the widespread use of DDT during the 1940s and ‘50s, the bugs all but vanished.

http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef636.asp

The EPA banned DDT decades ago for NO reason, and we get to live with the consequences.
 
Before DDT was banned bedbugs were nearly extinct. If the EPA (environmental police agency) imposes a ban on something--it must have been good. John--Las Vegas.
 
I have stayed at hotels 4 days out of every week all this year and most of last year.Great, now I'll be checking everything before i go to sleep.
 
We have a local pest control service that treats our home every 2 months, and the gentleman that works our account is also their bed bug specialist.

Some of the stories he tells of places that are infested are simply astounding-everything from low class apartment buildings to the highest class hotels. They have a bed bug sniffing beagle that sometimes accompanies him when he's here; for some infestations that's the only way they can find them.

Once word of advice-never purchase used furniture. When they treat a private residence for bed bugs, one of the most common sources is a piece of furniture purchased from Craigslist.

They recently invested in the heat treating system that seems to be working well, but it's very expensive to have a home treated.
 
Originally Posted By: Tempest
The EPA banned DDT decades ago for NO reason, and we get to live with the consequences.


Really ???

This one is going to be interesting.
 
Originally Posted By: Shannow
Originally Posted By: Tempest
The EPA banned DDT decades ago for NO reason, and we get to live with the consequences.


Really ???

This one is going to be interesting.
REALLY. John--Las Vegas.
 
Originally Posted By: Torino
Originally Posted By: Shannow
Originally Posted By: Tempest
The EPA banned DDT decades ago for NO reason, and we get to live with the consequences.


Really ???

This one is going to be interesting.
REALLY. John--Las Vegas.
I would tend to agree. There was 0 proof that DDT caused any of the claimed problems with the birds egg shells thinning.
 
Originally Posted By: Shannow

Really ???

This one is going to be interesting.

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Extensive hearings on DDT before an EPA administrative law judge occurred during 1971-1972. The EPA hearing examiner, Judge Edmund Sweeney, concluded that "DDT is not a carcinogenic hazard to man... DDT is not a mutagenic or teratogenic hazard to man... The use of DDT under the regulations involved here do not have a deleterious effect on freshwater fish, estuarine organisms, wild birds or other wildlife."

Overruling the EPA hearing examiner, EPA administrator Ruckelshaus banned DDT in 1972. Ruckelshaus never attended a single hour of the seven months of EPA hearings on DDT. Ruckelshaus' aides reported he did not even read the transcript of the EPA hearings on DDT.

After reversing the EPA hearing examiner's decision, Ruckelshaus refused to release materials upon which his ban was based. Ruckelshaus rebuffed USDA efforts to obtain those materials through the Freedom of Information Act, claiming that they were just "internal memos." Scientists were therefore prevented from refuting the false allegations in the Ruckelshaus' "Opinion and Order on DDT."


http://www.junkscience.com/ddtfaq.html

PLENTY more at that site and others.

10's of millions of people have died in Africa and other places from Malaria and other insect born diseases due to the virtual banning of DDT world wide. We are now reaping what we sow.
 
Originally Posted By: Tempest
10's of millions of people have died in Africa and other places from Malaria and other insect born diseases due to the virtual banning of DDT world wide. We are now reaping what we sow.


The virtual banning which has them continuing to use it (in Africa) under the advice of the WHO ?

Same ban that saw it used in California in 1979 ?

If the western world had continued to use it as they had, it would be next to useless for anything now...just like the stuff that we are making next to useless every day.

Tell me seriously that you think the following image is a good thing.

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As to junkscience being a place of credible outlook, check out his own published stance on the mercury risks of CFLs (you've used that before), compared to his stance on the whole issue of mercury being overhyped.

Can't even maintain a consistent stance, in other words he wants to be all things to all people who are business as usual, and [censored] the consequences.
 
Then his stance on Thimerosal

http://www.junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080110.html

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A classic test in epidemiological study is to observe what happens to the rate of disease when the suspected agent is removed. When Thimerosal was removed, the rate of disease was unaffected.

Ironically, it has taken the removal of Thimerosal to vindicate it.


Surely then the results post DDT ban vindicate the ban ?

Well at least the "virtual ban"

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Does having tile flooring help prevent the bed bugs ?

Miami Beach is a dump and I could never understand why sooooo many people like to take a vacation there.
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The shady characters, thugs, prostitutes and bums turned Miami Beach into a place to avoid.
 
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