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Cambridge Evening News

Bedbugs Are Pesky but Not Harmful WebMD By Jennifer Warner March 31, 2009 — Bedbugs may be getting a bad rap. The blood-sucking bugs have been thought to carry a host of different diseases, but a new review of research on the pesky critters suggests they may be less harmful than previously … Doctors: Bedbugs Nuisance, Not Health Threat TurnTo23.com Bedbugs are back Calgary CTV Bedbugs Explode in New York MedIndia Cambridge Evening News - ShortNews.com all 6 news articles

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Modern Medicine

Bed Bugs Bring No Disease Danger Forbes, NY TUESDAY, March 31 (HealthDay News) — Although bed bugs might prevent you from sleeping soundly, the good news is that their bites don't appear to transmit illness, a new report finds. Previously, some research had suggested that because bed bugs feed … Sleep tight. Bed bugs are mostly harmless. guardian.co.uk Global increase in bed bug infestations ABC7Chicago.com Bed Bugs: Harmless but Hardy Ivanhoe WVLT - KARE all 41 news articles

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Bed Bug's Bite Deemed Toothless MedPage Today, NJ By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today JACKSON, Miss., March 31 — The lore of the bed bug as transmitter of dread disease failed to hold up to scientific scrutiny, investigators here have determined. A review of more than 50 published …

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Sleep tight. Bed bugs are mostly harmless. guardian.co.uk, UK Bed bugs can reach around half a centimetre in length, and they grow even larger after their preferred meal of human blood. And thanks to cheap international travel and the fact that bed bugs can stow away in luggage, infestations seem to be getting … Control, Treatment of Bed Bugs Challenging ClaimsJournal.com all 2 news articles

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People who suffer chronic sleep problems are more likely to think about suicide or actually try to kill themselves, researchers said on Wednesday.

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Got bed bugs? Annapolis Capital, MD Don't let the bedbugs bite." Beth Nelson of Crofton, co-owner of Canine Scent Investigations, is determined to make that phrase a reality. She and her detection dog, Blanca, come to the rescue of everyone from homeowners to hotel chains desperate to …

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Die hard bed bugs pose real threat to SA Travel Wires, South Africa “There is no reason South Africa shouldn’t have a bed bug problem,” commented Professor of Entomology, Michael Potter, of the University of Kentucky at a bed bug seminar held in Johannesburg today. Potter confirmed huge infestation of bed bugs at a …

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CBC.ca

Bedbugs in Vancouver spread by landlord inaction: tenants CBC.ca, Canada By Kathy Tomlinson, CBC News A Vancouver couple whose West End apartment building has been infested with bedbugs blames their Toronto-based landlord for making the problem worse. "From the beginning, it was just handled terribly. …

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Now more than ever, Americans need their shut-eye. Unfortunately, sleep is usually one of the first things people scrimp on when time is short and stress is high. In a turbulent economy, nearly 30 percent of Americans lose sleep at least a few nights per week, according to a 2009 Sleep in America poll by the National Sleep Foundation (NSF).

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Cambridge Evening News

Bedbugs are biting as infestations rise Cambridge Evening News, UK The figures, released to the News under the Freedom of Information Act, show council pest controllers have been called to every ward in the city to deal with bedbugs over the past four years. Coleridge ward had the most recorded cases, …

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Slipping through state's safety net Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN Authorities report that bedbugs are making a comeback in many neighborhoods, the result of more families crowded into substandard housing. • In February, Catholic Charities in St. Paul said, 22 people with depression were on its waiting list for …

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Now more than ever, Americans need their shut-eye. Unfortunately, sleep is usually one of the first things people scrimp on when time is short and stress is high.

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Dog Sniffs Out Bedbugs Throughout Pittsburgh ThePittsburghChannel.com, PA Dogs are now being trained to detect pesky, biting creatures known as bedbugs, and WTAE Channel 4 Action News anchor Sally Wiggin reports that there's one such pooch in western Pennsylvania. "Sort of on the obsessive side," said Gretta MacIntyre, …

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Bedbugs Are Back; Health Dept. Sees Increase In Reports WPXI.com, PA PITTSBURGH — The Allegheny County Health Department has seen an increase in calls about bedbugs. The tiny insects that live in mattresses were virtually eliminated by the use of DDT, a pesticide that was banned in the early '70s. …

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Between career, family and everything else we have going on it can seem like there’s not enough time in the day.

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