Word: bedbug
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Increase in bedbug work performed by California's Western Extermination Co. between 2000 and 2006. Single-family homes and schools are among those now reporting infestation...
Average number of bedbug-related phone calls received each week by U.S. pest-control companies, according to the National Pest Management Association...
...infestation in Allston-Brighton—together with other reported cases in and around Boston—provided much of the narrative substance for an ABC News report about an increase in bedbug populations up and down the east coast...
More recently, regional managers from Terminix, an international pest-control operation with branches in 45 states, said that the Boston area now produces more than three times the bedbug infestations reported in the previous year...
While the bedbug—known by scientists as Cimex lectularius—is not charged with the transmission of any diseases, it is hardly a polite guest. Victims of bedbug bites have reported symptoms ranging from the relatively pedestrian (itchy, red spots) to the far more frightening (sickly sweet odors, sheets speckled with blood in the morning). And while finding and killing the culprits can be difficult, keeping them down can be even worse...