A tick no bigger than a pin-head has put a state task force to work trying to decide what should be done about the growing problem of Lyme disease in Virginia.
The tiny black “deer tick” can produce a rash with a clear center and various painful symptoms that, unless treated fairly soon, can be hard to cure.
Daniel Whitney has staked his claim on the title of Maryland’s bedbug barrister: Since Sept. 1, the Towson attorney has filed eight lawsuits on behalf of bedbug victims across the state seeking a total of more than $7 million in damages. MORE
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State health workers say it’s official: Florida is now witnessing incidents of two diseases we haven’t experienced in years, if not decades. “It’s of course important for Floridians in all parts of the state, but especially South Florida,” says Dr. Carina Blackmore with the state’s health department.
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Zep’s survey showed that 13 percent of respondents say they’ve stopped traveling to hotels or cities with known bedbug problems, and 16 percent claim that they’re consciously avoiding certain establishments out of fear they’ll pick up bedbugs and bring them home. More
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Lawmakers, government officials and industry leaders filled a room at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, not to talk about tax cuts or election results, but bedbugs, something many in the audience felt was just as important.
“They are virtually unstoppable,” Michael Potter, a bedbug expert from the University of Kentucky, told an auditorium full of people concerned about the resurgent tiny bloodsucker.
It was called the Congressional Bedbug Forum, hosted by Reps. G.K. Butterfield, D-North Carolina, and Don Young, R-Alaska.
“This is probably the only bipartisan bug I know of. They bite anyone and everyone, anywhere,” Young said jokingly.
But bedbugs are no joke to the many who have been bitten by one. more
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For struggling New York actors reduced to waiting tables for a living, there’s finally an alternative career path: bedbug hunter. Ever since the city began suffering from a widespread infestation of the pernicious bugs last year, demand has soared for people to get rid of them. Actors, it turns out, make the perfect bug busters. More
The Miami-Dade Health Department’s chief epidemiologist says the county hasn’t had a locally acquired case of Dengue since the 1950s. more:
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The most effective malaria treatment ever discovered was not developed by a team of scientists in a high-tech lab. It was created using artemisinin, a traditional Chinese herbal remedy that had been used to treat illness for hundreds of years. Now scientist is warning about drug resistance…More
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