or its Roves fault...that magnificent bastard!
Posted on 04/09/2007 3:53:26 AM PDT by Dacb
Walter has stopped hugging his friends. He is throwing out his clothes and furniture, and he rarely comes out of his Tenderloin hotel room anymore.
He's not suicidal, but darn near. He has bedbugs.
Nearly eradicated in the United States 50 years ago, resistant strains of "super" bedbugs are infesting mattresses at an alarming rate. In what's being touted as the biggest mystery in entomology, all 50 states are reporting outbreaks of the blood-sucking nocturnal critters.
Pest control companies nationwide reported a 71 percent increase in bedbug calls between 2000 and 2005. Left alone, a few bedbugs can create a colony of thousands within weeks.
"We never treated bedbugs until 2002. Now we have a dedicated bedbug crew working on this every day," said Luis Agurto, president of Pestec in San Francisco.
Agurto's arsenal includes a vacuum, steam heat to cook the bedbug eggs and targeted spraying of insecticides. It takes three, eight-hour visits and about $500 to $750 to exterminate one room. A whole house would cost closer to $5,000.
The bulk of Agurto's clients live in low-income hotels and shelters in the Tenderloin, but he's been called to five-star hotels and suburban homes in Walnut Creek.
Bedbugs have been found in moving vans, public transit seat cushions, airplanes, college dorms and even a Bay Area meditation retreat. They spread by hitching a ride on your clothes or in your luggage and crawling off to infest your home or apartment building.
Nearly 300 bedbug infestations were reported to San Francisco health officials in 2006, more than double the number in 2004. Most of the cases involved travelers discovering bedbugs in upscale hotels.
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Bush’s fault.
Absolutely positively Bush’s fault, slam the damn borders shut.
Bedbugs likely hitch rides on the backs of international travelers and immigrants. Given the administration’s tolerance for criminal immigration, it probably is Bush’s fault.
But what about Iraq and Global Warming?
A good friend and her son recently had to spend the night in a motel (Holiday Inn Express) when their water heater burst and flooded them out. She was unaffected, but her son was so heavily affected he was sent home from school - the nurse thought it might be chicken pox.
It’s only right that God has called down a plague on San Fran. Too bad that, like all the San Fran diseases, they have to share it with the rest of us!
or its Roves fault...that magnificent bastard!
Lord, that’s all I need right now.
In related news, the numbers of illegals crossing into the US has multiplied untold fold.
You didn’t hear much about bedbugs until they began to ban cigarette smoking in motel and hotel rooms. Nicotine is an excellent pesticide and probably kept the herd thinned.
Yes! Isn't tobacco used as a sheep dip?
And of course we Saved The Earth and banned DTT and condemned millions to malaria.
Bats carry them too.
And partly the fault of the environmentalists and government agencies which have neutered the bug sprays.
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