Friday video humor: Forget Godzilla, it is the attack of the bedbugs

With The Important Issues Of The Day Overwhelming The Airwaves, Don't Forget About The Insidious Bedbug

Just how big a problem are bedbugs in the cities around the United States? They have appeared in some of the country's best hotels, leading newspaper offices and of course in the homes of just regular citizens like you and I.

Is this problem as pressing as the firing of Juan Williams from NPR, the mid-term elections or the wars overseas? I don't think so, but that will also depend on whether they are in your house, or if they skipped your house and are only in the house next door. Perspective is a funny thing. Like the joke about the difference between recession and depression.

From the Marshall University student newspaper The Parthenon regarding the bedbug, where it is coming from and how to get rid of them:

"...Alan Eisenberg, senior vice president of sales for Protect-A-Bed, said this infestation of bed bugs has become a true epidemic.

"New York; Louisville, Ky.; Cleveland, Ohio and Detroit, Mich., are a few of the cities who are the most infested," Eisenberg said. "The reason for the major outbreak is the increased international travel and immigration, the changing of pest control methods and the bugs have developed an immunity to most pesticides."

"Bed bugs were an issue in the United States since World War II until the poison DDT was introduced in the 1950s," Sirianni said. "The use of DDT as a pesticide that was banned in the 1970s. Ever since then, the increase of travel technology and the absence of DDT have caused these pests to become an increasing problem."

Hotels, dorms and highly-populated areas are breeding grounds for bed bugs, Eisenberg said..."

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