Travel, by its very nature, is stressful. Even in the face of the most wonderful vacation, the traveler is away from home, in an unfamiliar place, and carrying a large portion of their personal belongings with them. As the proverbial “home away from home,” the hotel represents comfort and respite from those stresses – or at least it should.
An increasing number of pest-based incidents are leading to bedbug infestations ...
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A model working on a photo shoot alleges that she was bitten multiple times and sustained rashes and welts as a result of an overnight onslaught from bedbugs during her hotel stay. She is suing the establishment and its parent company for monetary and punitive damages.
Sabrina Jales St. Pierre, who according to the Los Angeles Times, has appeared as a model for Avon, Neiman Marcus, ...
continue reading...Two years after moving into their Inglewood, California apartment, the Martinez family awoke one morning to the horrific sight of their then three-year-old son covered from head to toe in red spots. After a trip to the hospital, the diagnosis was in: the spots were bug bites. The question was what kind of bugs.
After a thorough search of their home, the family isolated the issue. Like so many ...
continue reading...“Good night, sleep tight, don’t let the bedbugs bite!”
What was once just a singsong way of wishing someone a pleasant night’s sleep – albeit a bit creepy – is now once again an actual warning as bedbugs have made a comeback in a very big way. Most of the resurgence of this pest is thanks to just one fact: the bugs have simply adapted to the ways we try to kill ...
continue reading...When Stacey Belle of Winston Salem, North Carolina checked into her room at the Red Roof Inn in Prince George’s County, she expected a good night’s sleep in a clean room. What she did not expect was to be woken up and serving as the main course on a bedbug buffet.
Unfortunately, that is exactly what happened. The itching brought about by the onslaught was enough to wake ...
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