Bedbugs Eat Up 40% of Health Inspector's Time
Bedbugs continue to be a major drain on the resources of the Marlborough Board of Health as well as a pain for area residents.
Bedbugs in Marlborough and take up 40 percent of the time of the city's health inspector. "40 percent of a health inspectors time is taken up with bedbugs,” said Robert Landry, the Administrator for the Board of Health. Although the issue came to light within the last few years with bedbugs cropping up in hotels, they have been an issue for the last 10 years for boards of health and municipalities, said Landry. It is something that can impact anyone, he said. Those who are allergic to the bits of the insects which feed off of blood can have a rash develop as the bugs comes out to feed at night. "They like the tight little cracks and crevices. People think about them behind the bed but they are all over the place," said Landry. In Hamden …
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Layla777
9:14 am on Thursday, December 13, 2012
A retired librarian told me that a new way that bed bugs are being spread is through the spines of library books. People travel with them, read them in a hotel bed that has bed bugs, they nestle into the spine of books and people unknowingly take them home and spread them into their community. Just something to think about! more ›