Today the Daily News is in red, red for bugs that bite in the night...the front page announces what we could have guessed, that there are double the number of sufferers
they thought. So the previous figure on this blog of 400,000 is now superseded by ahe figure of 800,000 New Yorkers who suffer from these bugs, as cited by a Daily News-Marist poll.
It quotes Dan Kass, an assistant commissioner at the Dept. of Health: "There's not a lot of common knowledge about bedbugs...We're now at the point with the resurgence of bedbugs that everyone will have to start looking for them."
Well, duh. Sorry if I sound mean. And it took two journalists there to get this story out...they could have read this blog and known as much in 30 seconds.
And they could also have deduced that the city is not doing enough about it - their poll says 46% of New Yorkers think so.
The NYDN article does not get very specific, or tell us the names of any buildings with any major infestations. That is real journalism and is being left to a more capable paper to handle, so stay tuned to this site...
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