Bed Bug Awareness

Bed Bug Crawling on a Sleepers Skin

Bed bugs continue to spread around the world and are increasingly resistance to current pesticides, but tenants and municipalities are fighting back with greater bed bug awareness backed up by court actions. As public awareness of the epidemic grows, homeowners and tenants are becoming more savvy about recognizing and reporting bed bugs at an earlier stage, thereby avoiding more serious and more costly infestations. When bed bugs are not discovered and exterminated early on they can cause a serious invasion which results in property damage, psychological damage to tenants ranging from anxiety to full blown post-traumatic stress disorder, to the need for vacating the premises.

 Positive strides are definitely being made in the public awareness sectors; tenants are increasingly pressuring landlords to be responsible in carrying out bug eradication  on the premises, and some have taken landlords to court via class action suits. One recent development coming out of Perelman School of Medicine is the discovery that bed bugs may be capable of transmitting the potentially fatal Chagas disease. According to a Harvard University bed bug expert, the evidence while compelling is not conclusive. The Harvard professor added that homeowners should not overreact to the news, and should discuss any bed bug concerns with their local exterminator.A parallel rise in the American incidence of both Chagas diseases and bed bugs is suggestive of a connection; however increased migration from Latin America to the United States may also explain at least part of the rise in Chagas disease.

Conclusions that can be drawn from current bed bug trends are that a greater focus on public awareness leading to quicker reporting of bed bug sightings, and efforts to prevent bed bugs from entering the home, will help offset the growing bed bug resistance to pesticides.

The staff of A # 1 Pest Control of Baltimore are expert bed bug exterminators with more than 2 decades of service to the Baltimore community. Call 410-764-PEST for immediate service.