1/10 new yorkers w/ bedbugs

[Hannah Bell]

A new Daily News-Marist poll suggests that The City That Never Sleeps is probably too busy itching: One in 10 New Yorkers has now battled bedbugs in their home.

That's twice as many as the city estimated were plagued by the pests in 2009.

Though infestations at downtown hotels and boutiques get most of the attention, Manhattan is the borough with fewest workplace bedbugs, according to the survey conducted by the Marist poll for the Daily News.

Ten percent of respondents in Queens, Staten Island and Brooklyn reported bedbugs at work, as did 8% of Bronx residents, but just 3% of Manhattanites were afflicted.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/08/16/2010-08-16_untitled__bedbugs16m.html#ixzz0wovwTtac


NEOLIBERAL ECONOMIC POLICIES BRING PESTILENCE & DISEASE.

[Botany]

1. memo to self .... skip trip to NYC

[nc4bo]

2. Pure-de-grossness. nt

[customerserviceguy]

3. They're a major problem here

The old adage, "Don't let the bedbugs bite," is more or less a joke in many areas of the country, but it's a serious concern around here. The little devils seem to thrive in these parts.