About the recent surge in bedbug infestation, Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank writes today that:
University of Kentucky entomologist Mike Potter called the bedbug nothing less than “the most difficult, challenging pest problem of our generation.” Tossing out phrases such as “doomsday scenario” and “perfect storm,” he ventured: “In my opinion, we are not going to get out of this thing” — the bedbug thing — until we “allow the pest-control industry to go to war.” …
Bedbugs had been all but eradicated decades ago, panelist Potter explained, but thanks to increased travel, pesticide bans and resistance, we’ve “let bedbugs get back in the game”…
Potter, who boasted that he’s spent “the last three years of my life digging deep into the history of bedbug management,” offered a challenge: “I’d like to take anybody who thinks bedbugs is not a big deal, and we’ll sprinkle a few in their house and see what they think.”
But will the greens permit the pest control industry to “go to war” against the bedbug?
Agreed. Even worse, check out what’s happening in London:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23676290-details/London+suffering+from+shocking+rise+in+rare+'Victorian'+diseases/article.do
London suffering from shocking rise in rare ‘Victorian’ diseases
(any probs with the link, pls let me know).
It all boils down to hygiene.
You KNOW the answer to the question.