[yvonne johnson]

I knew about the 'pandemic' in the city, but I had no idea they could travel so far:

"And in cities like New York, where neighbors are often separated only by bricks and mortar, one person’s infestation is everybody’s problem, since bedbugs can crawl through walls and along wiring and pipes, and hitchhike on clothing, furniture, luggage and more."

There's a huge infestation in NY. "Calls to the 311 help line...Consider that six years ago, there were 537 bedbug complaints and 82 violations (in other words, verified infestations); last year, complaints topped out at nearly 11,000, with 4,084 violations cited (nearly double that of the previous year). But the complaints registered with the department and 311 relate only to rental properties; reports of bedbugs scampering through the private sanctums of hotels, co-ops and condos, colleges and office buildings remain largely uncounted, though real estate lawyers and brokers report that co-op minutes reveal a world that’s just as infested as the rest of the city."

Cruiser is one clever dog. NYT.

[porkwah]

we had them -- they drove us out of queens.

no way of knowing for sure where they came from, but our neighbors also had them. old plaster walls have cracks.

it was a horrible experience.

through luck and diligence we lost them when we moved to brooklyn -- two and a half years and we haven't seen one.

[yvonne johnson]

Bedbugs found in Empire State Bldg.

[Really Nice!]

As I posted yesterday in Annoyances...

Very late coming into this discussion, but we're planning a trip soon (which is why it caught my eye) and I saw this site on a morning news program a while back. http://bedbugregistry.com

You can use it in weeding out the infested hotels (and apartments).

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As to this discussion, according to the site New York, Vancouver BC, and Seattle have quite the population.

[foodie52]

Oh dear. The only hotel listed in Austin is one in which a friend works...

[peppyre]

Really Nice!, on 21 August 2010 - 01:49 PM, said:

As I posted yesterday in Annoyances...

Very late coming into this discussion, but we're planning a trip soon (which is why it caught my eye) and I saw this site on a morning news program a while back. http://bedbugregistry.com

You can use it in weeding out the infested hotels (and apartments).

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As to this discussion, according to the site New York, Vancouver BC, and Seattle have quite the population.

Vancouver does indeed have a huge problem with them. My former upstairs neighbors had them and the building manager had a dog come in a sweep my apartment. I live in a 90 year old building, so it would be very easy for them to travel. Fortunately, I was fine. Not so for another friend of mine a couple of years ago. She had bedbugs that had travelled from another apartment. She was able to get rid of them without chucking her brand new bed. It was about a month old. They are not fun.

ETA: Found it on the Bedbud Registry..."Vallejo Court Apartment 304 April 2010 Room has been treated." That would be the apartment above mine.

[Really Nice!]

Tuesday, September 14

The Dr. Oz Show
"America's Bed Bug Infestation: Coming to a Town Near You"

[splinky]

Really Nice!, on 12 September 2010 - 05:16 PM, said:

Tuesday, September 14

The Dr. Oz Show
"America's Bed Bug Infestation: Coming to a Town Near You"

Will this be like his fake cancer scare show? I lost what little respect I had for him as a doctor with that little stunt

[Really Nice!]

splinky, on 12 September 2010 - 02:53 PM, said:

Really Nice!, on 12 September 2010 - 05:16 PM, said:

Tuesday, September 14

The Dr. Oz Show
"America's Bed Bug Infestation: Coming to a Town Near You"

Will this be like his fake cancer scare show? I lost what little respect I had for him as a doctor with that little stunt

Missed that one. As a matter of fact, I miss 99.9% of them.

[ghostrider]

splinky, on 12 September 2010 - 05:53 PM, said:

Really Nice!, on 12 September 2010 - 05:16 PM, said:

Tuesday, September 14

The Dr. Oz Show
"America's Bed Bug Infestation: Coming to a Town Near You"

Will this be like his fake cancer scare show? I lost what little respect I had for him as a doctor with that little stunt

I'm convinced that the whole object of that show is to scare you, & then being in that state of mind becomes an addiction & you can't stop watching.

S watches it with some frequency. Sometimes I'm in the room for a few minutes.

[splinky]

ghostrider, on 12 September 2010 - 08:46 PM, said:

splinky, on 12 September 2010 - 05:53 PM, said:

Really Nice!, on 12 September 2010 - 05:16 PM, said:

Tuesday, September 14

The Dr. Oz Show
"America's Bed Bug Infestation: Coming to a Town Near You"

Will this be like his fake cancer scare show? I lost what little respect I had for him as a doctor with that little stunt

I'm convinced that the whole object of that show is to scare you, & then being in that state of mind becomes an addiction & you can't stop watching.

S watches it with some frequency. Sometimes I'm in the room for a few minutes.

i think he's a fear monger. it seems to me that there are enough people in this country who don't take advantage of the medical care that is available to them and even more who don't have access to adequate or any care, that it's irresponsible for a medical doctor to sit and cry on the air because a non cancerous polyp is discovered and removed during his first colonoscopy at age 50. that kind of behavior is just going to scare people away from the idea of taking any action before it's too late. in that one show he managed to defeats the whole concept of encouraging people to have preventative procedures and the idea that one can rejoice in the fact that if something is found it might be benign and if it's not benign it might be very treatable but to experience this joy you must let a professional scope you or scan you on a regular basis. better to have a "pre-cancer" removed than to have to treat a cancer. everyone isn't so fortunate to have disease that is "easily" detectable before it's in the much harder to treat stages.

oh and his bullshit whine that he was shocked and upset about the polyp because he has no family history and "does everything right" in terms of diet and exercise was the biggest crock. it's some fucking wayward cells that grew in his colon. it happens, the body is not a perfect machine, it's a pretty awesome machine but it's not infallible and it's also subject to a certain amount of wear and tear. so basically he's pushing the idea that anyone/everyone who gets cancer did something wrong. that's just crazy bad medicine.

[ghostrider]

splinky, on 12 September 2010 - 09:06 PM, said:

ghostrider, on 12 September 2010 - 08:46 PM, said:

splinky, on 12 September 2010 - 05:53 PM, said:

Really Nice!, on 12 September 2010 - 05:16 PM, said:

Tuesday, September 14

The Dr. Oz Show
"America's Bed Bug Infestation: Coming to a Town Near You"

Will this be like his fake cancer scare show? I lost what little respect I had for him as a doctor with that little stunt

I'm convinced that the whole object of that show is to scare you, & then being in that state of mind becomes an addiction & you can't stop watching.

S watches it with some frequency. Sometimes I'm in the room for a few minutes.

i think he's a fear monger. it seems to me that there are enough people in this country who don't take advantage of the medical care that is available to them and even more who don't have access to adequate or any care, that it's irresponsible for a medical doctor to sit and cry on the air because a non cancerous polyp is discovered and removed during his first colonoscopy at age 50. that kind of behavior is just going to scare people away from the idea of taking any action before it's too late. in that one show he managed to defeats the whole concept of encouraging people to have preventative procedures and the idea that one can rejoice in the fact that if something is found it might be benign and if it's not benign it might be very treatable but to experience this joy you must let a professional scope you or scan you on a regular basis. better to have a "pre-cancer" removed than to have to treat a cancer. everyone isn't so fortunate to have disease that is "easily" detectable before it's in the much harder to treat stages.

I happened upon that same show. Amen & strike 1.

I saw another recent show where he was on about "5 Important Numbers You Must Know." It took me a few minutes of being depressed before I realized that the waist size he was talking about was for women. He never mentioned a threshhold dangerous waist size for men. Strike 2.

Even more insidious, he said that if your fasting blood sugar level is over 100, you're in trouble. That may be true, but if you're diabetic, the American Diabetes Ass'n considers up to 130 as signifying that you have it controlled. Who am I to believe? Strike 3.

[splinky]

maybe we should have a "why dr oz is the anti-christ" thread

[ghostrider]

splinky, on 12 September 2010 - 09:20 PM, said:

maybe we should have a "why dr oz is the anti-christ" thread

Not a bad idea, except then someone would have to watch his show more to get more material.