City's epidemic makes its way into classrooms as bedbugs hop a ride on kids via clothing and jackets.
Bedbugs Infest NYC Schools
City’s epidemic makes its way into classrooms as bedbugs hop a ride on kids via clothing and jackets.
“Night-night. Don’t let the bedbugs bite.” That’s what parents in New York used to say to their kids. But due to recent events, they may have to change that to, “Have fun at school. Don’t let the bedbugs bite.”
According to a recent article in the New York Times, bedbugs, are no longer relegated to household bedrooms or hotels. They have found their way into the city’s schools.
New York’s Education Department record show there were 1,019 confirmed cases of bedbugs in the 2009-10 school year — an 88 percent increase from the previous school year. And since the city started counting 311 calls (the city’s non-emergency hotline) related to bedbugs, in March, operators have received 121 calls about bedbugs in schools. So far this month, 311 operators have received 22 calls about bedbugs in schools, since classes started just a few weeks ago on Sept 8th. But it’s unclear (and city officials were unwilling to comment) on whether or not bedbug incidents have also been reported by other means.)
Bedbugs are similar to lice in that they feed on humans, but do not typically transmit disease. But unlike lice, bedbugs are most active at night, so school classrooms are not the most ideal breeding environments. Still, classrooms could be serving as a transportation hub to and from homes, serving to further spread the bugs’ resurgence in the city.
And according to the city’s Education Department spokeswoman, Marge Feinburg, it could get worse in the winter months ahead as bedbugs catch a ride to school on heavy clothing, like jackets.
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From the Mother Nature Network
mommy
what can we do about it ?????????
Riv
well youve gotta move out for one month with the exterminator and washs and cover the beds
Vantsen, vantsen!
This is a HUGE issue. I have a couple of apartments and way have too much experience with this.
Exterminator will cost you a lot of money. Even after treatment the bugs come back. No exterminator is going to guarantee his work because a lot of it’s effectiveness depends on the person living there.
Wash ALL clothes in HOT water! Hot water kills the bed bugs.
Don’t leave clothing or towels lying around the room.
You can spray the mattresses with bleach. Bleach kills them on contact. Or, they sell a spray that is pretty effective and not very expensive.
Encase the mattresses in plastic and your issue is gone.
If you have a Bubeh or Zaideh that was placed, by the Joint/Sholomber Gorodetzky, in France, ask them about the vantsen and how the French Government handled it.
2 #2
where r we suppost to go 2??
a tip
you buy a bedbug spray and spray it all over the Couches, beds, and things like that and then make sure to clean your bed, matresses,couches and all others every week or better yet twice a week!
awacs
“what can we do about it ?????????”
Don’t send your kids to public school.
Anyway, the best exterminators have specially trained dogs that can sniff out the bedbugs.
don-t kid yourself
There are many buildings/apartments in Crown Heights that have major bed bug issues.
Any kid living in these apartments can bring the bugs to school and send them home with any classmate!
People who work in other peoples homes ie: therapists, household help etc have been known to bring bedbugs home from their clients as well as carry the bed bugs from one home to another.
A professional exterminator can detect them in your home a number of ways, but actually exterminating them is a major headache and virtually impossible to do 100% effectively.
Be afraid! Be very very afraid!