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U.S. not sleeping tight as bedbugs renew bite
Some scientists see plague tied to DDT ban
Posted: December 13, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Joseph Farah
2004 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON – A forgotten old nursery rhyme is having more meaning for
Americans these days.
"Sleep tight. Don't let the bedbugs bite."
But they are biting in all 50 states as they haven't bitten since the 1940s,
say pest control companies, scientists and health officials. And, indeed, it is
making sleep more difficult for Americans of all walks of life – from
denizens of homeless shelters to those visiting the swankiest five-star hotels.
Outbreaks of bedbug infestations have been reported from coast to coast, north
and south and among rich and poor. Experts attribute the plague largely to two
factors: increased travel and the banning of DDT and other effective pesticides
that virtually wiped out "Cimex lectularious," the Latin name for the pest.
A November newsletter from Doctors for Disaster Preparedness made the link
between the rise of bedbug infestations and the U.S. banning in 1972 of the
potent pesticide DDT.
"No chemical in history has saved more lives than DDT, and few if any have a
better safety record," the organization decried.
Dozens of other experts made the connection with DDT and increased travel. The
banning of DDT has also been linked worldwide to the major increase in malaria,
which annually took the lives of millions before DDT nearly wiped out the
mosquito-borne plague. Many countries have reintroduced the use of DDT to fight
malaria.
Bedbugs are often confused with lice, fleas or scabies.
Bedbugs are small flat bugs about the size of an apple seed, growing up to
one-quarter inch in adulthood. They resemble tiny cockroaches without wings and
live in the crevices of beds. They generally only come out at night to feed on
people's blood with a painless bite. Signs of the bites are red, itchy welts on
your skin in the morning.
Health officials say to look for dark red or black streaks of digested blood on
the sheets along with a very distinctive, sweet smell which is the telltale
sign of bedbug infestations.
A survey by Orkin Pest Control found reports of bedbug infestations increased
300 percent between 2000 and 2001, 70 percent between 2001 and 2002, and 70
percent between 2002 and 2003. The company said it had reports of infestations
last year in 33 states.
In a statement, the company said, "We first started seeing [bedbugs] in hotels,
but in the past year have also treated infestations in homes, apartments,
college dormitories, condominiums, aircraft and cruise ships."
Bedbugs can survive for up to a year lying in wait for the nice warm body of an
unknowing traveler. Once discovered, they can be difficult for a hotel or
cruise ship or homeowner to eliminate, requiring special insecticides and
tools, not just a can of bug spray.
"Homeowners are staying in hotels, picking up bedbugs in their suitcases and
bringing them home," Cindy Mannes of the National Pest Management Association
in Dunn Loring, Virginia, outside Washington, told the Washington Post.
One Boston mother reportedly threw out her children's bunk beds and her own and
asked her landlord to fumigate her apartment. When that didn't end the rash of
ugly bug bites on her children, she moved, leaving her possessions behind for
fear they'd become infested. Bedbugs cost her $6,000.
According to dozens of experts, the bedbug had virtually disappeared from the
United States during World War II, when the pesticide DDT was introduced. But
the banning of DDT and other effective pesticides due to environmental concerns
has spurred their return.
There are a range of treatments. At hotels, for example, Orkin uses
high-temperature steam (heated to 212 degrees Fahrenheit – about 100 degrees
hotter than they can withstand) which instantly kills adults and their eggs.
The company recommends cleaning nine rooms at a time: the room where the
complaint was lodged, the rooms on each side as well as the three rooms above
and three rooms below. Headboards and bed frames are taken apart.
"This is one of the hottest bug issues in a generation," said Michael Potter, a
professor of urban entomology at the University of Kentucky College of
Agriculture in Lexington. "Bedbugs are going ballistic."
Potter said that while bedbug infestations were common before World War II, the
widespread use of DDT virtually eliminated them in some parts of the world.
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13 Dec 2004 09:21:55 AM |
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"TonyZ2001" <tonyz2001@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20041213093657.22097.00002227@mb-m06.aol.com...
U.S. not sleeping tight as bedbugs renew bite
Some scientists see plague tied to DDT ban
And this has what to do with prophecy?
Don't you get tired of your own stupidity in showing what a hypocrite
you are tone?
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krib
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| User: "Absolute Zero" |
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13 Dec 2004 09:33:01 AM |
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Krib wrote:
"TonyZ2001" <tonyz2001@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20041213093657.22097.00002227@mb-m06.aol.com...
U.S. not sleeping tight as bedbugs renew bite
Some scientists see plague tied to DDT ban
And this has what to do with prophecy?
DDT => Mosquitoes => WNV => Bioweapon => Saddam => anti-Christ.
Simple really... just like Tone.
Don't you get tired of your own stupidity in showing what a hypocrite
you are tone?
NEVER!
-A
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| User: "TonyZ2001" |
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13 Dec 2004 10:03:31 AM |
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Absolute Zero
wrote:
Krib wrote:
"TonyZ2001" <tonyz2001@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20041213093657.22097.00002227@mb-m06.aol.com...
U.S. not sleeping tight as bedbugs renew bite
Some scientists see plague tied to >>>DDT ban
And this has what to do with >>prophecy?
DDT => Mosquitoes => WNV => >Bioweapon => Saddam => anti-Christ.
LOL!!!
I guess you like all those people dying of Malaria because of the ban on DDT?
Tony
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| User: "Krib" |
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13 Dec 2004 10:16:03 AM |
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"TonyZ2001" <tonyz2001@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20041213110331.22097.00002242@mb-m06.aol.com...
I guess you like all those people dying of Malaria because of the ban on
DDT?
But what has your bleating got to do with prophecy big mouth?
You whine like the ***** you are at other people in here being
off topic yet you keep posting this crap in here, so why are
you off topic again?
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krib
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| User: "Woodswun" |
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13 Dec 2004 04:33:28 PM |
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In article <7fjvd.3331$SE6.1667@newsfe3-win.ntli.net>, "Krib" <krib@address.invalid> wrote:
"TonyZ2001" <tonyz2001@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20041213110331.22097.00002242@mb-m06.aol.com...
I guess you like all those people dying of Malaria because of the ban on
DDT?
But what has your bleating got to do with prophecy big mouth?
You whine like the ***** you are at other people in here being
off topic yet you keep posting this crap in here, so why are
you off topic again?
DDT isn't the only effective chemical in the fight against mosquitoes, nor is
the use of pesticides the only effective mechanism for combatting them.
Woods
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| User: "Jean Guernon" |
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13 Dec 2004 12:08:30 PM |
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What do YOU have to do with prophecies Krib? Tony contributes to them,
you, you are a little ***** that can only parasite other's posts with
unrelated *****, a puking little disgrace to the human race. You and tw
have nothing to so but compensate for your HUGE emptiness with unrelated
*****, you two never contributed anything to prophecies, your only
pleasure is to attack real posters here because you are little shits.
Kiss my ***** Krib. as for TW, he is already in the toilet. Wallow in it
with him, piece of ***** loser.
J.
Krib a écrit:
"TonyZ2001" <tonyz2001@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20041213093657.22097.00002227@mb-m06.aol.com...
U.S. not sleeping tight as bedbugs renew bite
Some scientists see plague tied to DDT ban
And this has what to do with prophecy?
Don't you get tired of your own stupidity in showing what a hypocrite
you are tone?
--
krib
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| User: "Krib" |
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13 Dec 2004 01:11:51 PM |
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"Jean Guernon" <jguernon@globetrotter.net> wrote in message
news:yUkvd.6719205$6p.1054114@news.easynews.com...
What do YOU have to do with prophecies Krib? Tony contributes to them,
What's up guernon, been wallowing too much in the urine of little girls?
it seems to have addled what little mental faculty you had.
I made the point to your friend trannyz that he constantly attacks others
as posting off topic yet, typical of the hypocrisy of him and other vermin
like you, does so himself. That hypocrisy goes for a lot of the other crap
that he, and you guernon, post hence my calling him on his two faced
attitude.
So you tell me you ***** addled old *****, exactly what does his post have
to do with prophecy? Why aren't *you* whining at him with your ***** soaked
breath too? you're a hypocritical as you are disgusting, vile, filthy old
man.
Get it now simpleton? perhaps if you didn't spend so much time wallowing
in urine or faeces like you always talk about, you'd actually spend some
time learning to read and understand English. Moron.
you, you are a little ***** that can only parasite other's posts with
unrelated *****, a puking little disgrace to the human race.
LOL, says you. A disgusting excuse for a human being. A cowardly ***** that
ran away from a commitment to the USMC after taking their expenses, a
pretend supporter of the US that needs special entry requirements because
of your drug conviction, an old man that apparentl has a special attraction
for
the urine of pubescent girls.... who gives a ***** what a piece of filth like
you thinks guernon, I don't.
You and tw have nothing to so but compensate for your HUGE emptiness
with unrelated *****, you two never contributed anything to prophecies,
your only
pleasure is to attack real posters here because you are little shits.
Apart from your usual habit of lying, do you have any point here guernon?
You have no say in who posts in here nor what they post about. You have
no say on what's on topic or isn't. Do you have nothing to do but parasite
my
posts then guernon? You keep your hypocrisy to yourself guernon, if I want
the opinion of a urine fetishist I'll be sure to address you.
Kiss my ***** Krib.
Try asking some little girl guernon, they seem to be what attracts you
most anyway you pervert.
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krib
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| User: "tw" |
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14 Dec 2004 07:28:02 AM |
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"Krib" <krib@address.invalid> wrote in message
news:XPlvd.476$kC6.308@newsfe5-win.ntli.net...
LOL, says you. A disgusting excuse for a human being. A cowardly ***** that
ran away from a commitment to the USMC after taking their expenses, a
pretend supporter of the US that needs special entry requirements because
of your drug conviction, an old man that apparentl has a special
attraction
for
the urine of pubescent girls....
Oh Jebus, another *****-drinker! Is this from Guernon's disturbing yahoo
groups postings or something he discusses on usenet?
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| User: "tw" |
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14 Dec 2004 04:18:07 AM |
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"Jean Guernon" <jguernon@globetrotter.net> wrote in message
news:yUkvd.6719205$6p.1054114@news.easynews.com...
What do YOU have to do with prophecies Krib? Tony contributes to them,
you, you are a little ***** that can only parasite other's posts with
unrelated *****, a puking little disgrace to the human race. You and tw
have nothing to so but compensate for your HUGE emptiness with unrelated
*****, you two never contributed anything to prophecies, your only
pleasure is to attack real posters here because you are little shits.
Kiss my ***** Krib. as for TW, he is already in the toilet.
4 year olds, dude.4 year olds.
Wallow in it
with him, piece of ***** loser.
Even a "pice of ***** loser" would be several rungs up the evolutionary
ladder from an insane, lying old pervert like you, Guernon.
J.
Krib a écrit:
"TonyZ2001" <tonyz2001@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20041213093657.22097.00002227@mb-m06.aol.com...
U.S. not sleeping tight as bedbugs renew bite
Some scientists see plague tied to DDT ban
And this has what to do with prophecy?
Don't you get tired of your own stupidity in showing what a hypocrite
you are tone?
--
krib
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