Friday, June 29, 2012

Novel Bed Bug Entry Routes

An Internet newspaper has described the latest in a number of novel bed bug transmission routes. In a recent article by The Star, a homeowner posted a video in which he tells the story of how bed bugs crawled out of a local library book that his wife had taken home on loan from the public library. The bed bugs, seen in the video posted online, crawled out of the murder novel "Watching the Dark," by Peter Robinson. Most likely they entered the book at the home of the previous person who read the novel.

The householder's wife took quick action, and after killing one bug and then sighting a second she sealed up the book and bugs in a plastic zip lock bag for future inspection. By the next morning, three bed bugs had crawled out of the book. Three bed bugs is a real threat because it only takes one pregnant female to infest a whole building. Had the quick thinking housewife not put the book in a sealed container, the bugs might have crawled out mated, and subsequently created a colony that could have spread throughout the whole home. .

The fact that bed bugs can travel from one locale to another inside the pages of a book reminds us yet another precaution homeowners need to take to stop this epidemic. Standard instructions for bed bug prevention include recommendations about careful inspection of any second hand clothing or furniture entering the home. However, this incident underscores the fact that it is just as necesary to inspect other types of second hand objects that have been in the public sector. .
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