A study to be published Wednesday in The Journal of the Royal Society Interface details the scientists’ quest, including their discovery of how the bugs get hooked on the leaves.
Many Canadians afflicted by bed bugs are facing extra delays in getting medical treatment or outright denial of service from 'misguided' health-care workers
'The issue with bed bugs is that you’re going to bed and you know that at any time some insect will bite you, and you’re at your most vulnerable,' said Dr. Stéphane Perron
Inbreeding usually causes genetic defects that eventually kill off creatures who engage in it, but not when it comes to bedbugs who thrive by mating with relatives, researchers said Tuesday
Toronto’s budget committee is taking the provincial government up on its offer to pay for public health nurses to help combat bed bugs, after Mayor Rob Ford led the charge against a previous offer for nurses earlier this year. But the committee made extra certain the city would not be on the hook for a […]
Reports of Toronto bed bug infestations spiked by nearly 40% in 2010, says a report released Friday by Global News. City officials recorded 2,106 infestation reports in 2010, a 38% increase over the 1,528 cases reported in 2009. The Global report was compiled with City of Toronto data obtained through access-to-information laws. The numbers do […]
By Mike Hager VANCOUVER • Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have been found in Vancouver bedbugs, researchers revealed Wednesday. The discovery was made by scientists working at St. Paul’s Hospital, where most of Vancouver’s poorest residents from the drug- and violence-plagued Downtown Eastside come for medical treatment.
Toronto’s Board of Health is asking the city for $500,000 more to help it exterminate the bed bug epidemic plaguing some high-rises, defying the city manager’s request to shave its budget. The board voted to increase public health’s funding request 1.49%, or $660,000, over last year, for a net total of $44.8-million. By spending $500,000, […]
Bed bugs are no laughing matter. They’re creepy, and they cause real suffering. Still, the fifth point in Liberal MPP Mike Colle’s 20-point plan for tackling the bed bug problem, released this week, gave me a real chuckle. “The federal government should examine the possibility of establishing new procedures, at various border crossings, to ensure […]
It is hard to imagine a creature less glamorous than the bed bug. But for almost a day, the bloodsucking scourge from below appeared poised to make its red carpet debut, after rumours spread the critters had infested a movie theatre attached to the Toronto International Film Festival. The record was set straight yesterday morning […]
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