With Bedbugs, Some People See Pests, Others See Profits
30 September 2010
Entomologist Jeff White holds a container of live bed bugs at the North American Bed Bug Summit in Rosemont, Illinois, on September 21st
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.
They are not even five millimeters long and cannot fly or jump. Yet bedbugs strike fear in homeowners and business owners. Well, not all business owners. Some see money in these little bloodsuckers.
Missy Henriksen speaks for the National Pest Management Association.
MISSY HENRIKSEN: "We are now seeing bedbugs in what we would consider to be atypical locations: schools and hospitals, retail locations, movie theaters. So, as the numbers have grown, those bed bugs are spreading out and traveling along with people."
A common bedbug full of blood after feeding on a human arm
New York and other cities have outbreaks. But the United States is not the only country affected.
Jeff White is an insect expert who hosts Bed Bug TV on the website BedBug Central.
JEFF WHITE: "What has caused this rapid expansion of bedbug infestations -- and the world for that matter -- is the lack of public awareness."
Mr. White says bedbugs nearly disappeared from the United States for fifty or sixty years. Now researchers are looking for faster, safer ways to control them without the kinds of poisons used in the past.
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