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Article: Bedbugs are making a comeback across the United States.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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Byline: Kirsten Scharnberg
NEW YORK _ This is going to make your skin crawl.
Bedbugs _ those tenacious, bloodsucking little critters that once were so successfully eradicated from the United States that parents teased small children about them at bedtime _ are making a comeback. A big, itchy, coast-to-coast comeback.
At least 28 states reported an influx of bedbugs in 2002. The bugs have shown up in homes, apartment buildings and even world-class luxury hotels. One entomologist called them "the new scourge of America," and Orkin Inc., the nation's second-largest pest-control company, has predicted a 25 to 30 percent increase in bedbug ...