Bed Bugs and Public Health: New Approaches for an Old Scourge

Bed bugs and public health: new approaches for an old scourge.

OBJECTIVE To share four Canadian cities' experiences with bed bug infestations and to explore public health roles in managing them. METHODS We summarize presentations from a workshop at the 2010 Canadian Public Health Association Conference which examined the re-emergence of bed bugs in Canada and compared management approaches of municipal and public health authorities in four large Canadian...

Old Europe — New Public Health

Same Old Bugs, New Diseases

Blood-borne mycoplasmas, known collectively as hemotropic mycoplasmas or hemoplasmas, are small, pleomorphic, epicellular bacteria that adhere to the host’s red blood cells. They cannot be cultured. They can be detected microscopically in blood smears and, more reliably, through use of PCR assays on whole blood. The hemoplasmas vary in severity of disease caused to the host and most infected an...

Suicide following an infestation of bed bugs

PATIENT Male, 62. FINAL DIAGNOSIS Bipolar disorder. SYMPTOMS Bordeline personality disorder. MEDICATION - CLINICAL PROCEDURE Bed bug infestation. SPECIALTY Psychiatry. OBJECTIVE Unusual clinical course. BACKGROUND In the past decade, bed bug infestations have been increasingly common in high income countries. Psychological consequences of these infestations are rarely examined in ...

Moving From the Old to the New: Insecticide Research on Bed Bugs since the Resurgence

The scarcity of bed bugs in many countries over the last 50 years has resulted in a lack of modern research into the toxicology of this pest. Although bed bugs resurged in the late 1990s, published research related to insecticides has lagged behind and only began to appear in 2006. The difficulty in controlling bed bugs triggered the interest of both private and academic sectors to determine th...