Bedbugs Force Dozens Into Hotel
New Haven Building Fumigated After Outbreak
POSTED: 5:56 pm EDT July 19,
2007
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Bedbugs forced more than a dozen residents of a New Haven building to relocate to hotel rooms.Channel 3 Eyewitness News reporter Erika Arias reported that the bedbug outbreak forced the residents of 15 apartments into a hotel while their units are decontaminated.Resident Alberta Silverspoon said that she discovered the parasites, which she described as similar to mosquitoes, but worse, in her apartment.The apartments must be fumigated to kill the oval-shaped brown bugs that feed only on warm-blooded humans and animals.Arias reported that the Housing Authority is taking the outbreak seriously. Silverspoon said that as soon as she alerted the authority, immediate action was taken.
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