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Start scratching. Terminix has just issued its annual list of top bed-bug infested cities. In a twist this year, the exterminator has identified the 15 top cities with the largest increase in infestations.
We'll get to that, but first, a look at where the most bed bug-specific calls from anguished (we presume) customers are coming from. Terminix has 300-plus branches nationwide.
The 15 cities with the greatest increases in bed bug complaint calls to Terminix:
- Sacramento - 54%
- Milwaukee - 53%
- Las Vegas - 50%
- Columbus, Ohio - 47%
- Baltimore - 46%
- Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif. - 41%
- St. Louis - 40%
- Cleveland - 36%
- Louisville - 31%
- Denver - 28%
- Los Angeles - 27%
- San Francisco - 26%
- Dallas/Ft. Worth - 25%
- Nashville - 17%
- Houston - 15%
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Cities with the top number of calls related to bed bugs through May of this year:
- Cincinnati
- Philadelphia
- Detroit
- New York
- Columbus
- Los Angeles
- Dallas
- Chicago
- Houston
- Baltimore
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The Terminix press release quotes one of its entomologists as saying bed bugs have been associated with anemia, can lead to problems related to excessive scratching and can have a "psychological impact."
I stay in a lot of hotels and I've never seen a bed bug, nor have I been victim to any of the maladies mentioned here, save for occasional bouts of bed-bug hysteria triggered by reading lists like this one.
The condition causes me to whip off the top bedding for closer inspection of the sheets. I also attempt to look behind the headboard for telltale specks on the wall (though that's more often than not futile, since headboards in the grade of hotels I stay in tend to be bolted to the wall).
But more often than not, I don't think twice about these tenacious little suckers I keep reading about
Am I playing bed bug roulette? Are you on the lookout for bed bugs and, if so, have you ever seen one?
By Jayne Clark, USA Today
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