“L.A. too feeling bedbugs' bite” |
| L.A. too feeling bedbugs' bite Posted: 05 Dec 2010 04:02 PM PST December 5, 2010 | 4:00 pm New Yorkers aren't the only ones coping with creepy, crawly bloodsuckers. Bedbugs have turned up in the Golden Triangle retail district of Beverly Hills and inside homes and apartments in more than two dozen local communities. "It's really all over the county," said Angelo J. Bellomo, director of environmental health for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. After noticing an increase in reports from tenants, property owners and businesses, public health officials last spring began tracking reports of bedbugs and later posted public notices about how to prevent and treat infestations. They're confirming as many as 55 reports of the lentil-size, brown critters each month. Across the United States, bedbugs have turned up in posh hotels, movie theaters, churches, hospitals, dormitories and high-end clothing stores. Fears of hotel infestations, particularly in New York, have thrown the travel industry into a tizzy, and national "bedbug summits" have drawn standing-room-only crowds. Read more: "L.A.'s slow trickle of bedbugs may turn into a flood." ALSO: Winds, rain returning to L.A. Sunday night -- Martha Groves Photo: Erik Alden of Isotech Pest Management and his coonhound, Maddie, are on the hunt for bedbugs in a Santa Clarita apartment building. Credit: Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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