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You don?t have to stay in a flophouse or hostel to encounter bed bugs. Bed bugs are just as prevalent in luxury hotels and respected national chains. ?Just because a motel (appears) clean and is expensive ... it does not mean that they don?t have bedbugs?. Find out how bed bug monitors are changing the fight against bed bugs.



Bed Bugs!!! Avoid this hotel! warns TripAdvisor. Hoteliers are finding that notices posted on popular travel review sites can be disastrous for business. One upscale hotel saw its five-star rating on Yahoo! Travel plummet to one star overnight when guests reported sharing their bed with bed bugs. Increasingly, distraught guests whose sleep has been disturbed by the tiny blood-sucking pests are outing hotels on internet sites and filing lawsuits. BedbugRegistry is devoted to traveler accounts of bed bug attacks at hotels, complete with addresses and maps. Concerned hoteliers feel unfairly trapped. While hotels have a responsibility to protect the health and welfare of their guests, it?s usually guests who bring bed bugs into a hotel.


Adept hitchhikers Ryquell Armstead Color Rush Jersey , bed bugs travel into hotel rooms in guests? luggage and set up housekeeping. Bed bugs are nuisance pests that feed on human blood. Difficult to detect, adults are russet brown and about the size of an apple seed, but nymphs are microscopic and nearly translucent. While bed bugs do not transmit disease, their bites can cause itchy, red welts Quincy Williams II Color Rush Jersey , psychosomatic stress and severe allergic reactions. When their original meal ticket checks out, bed bugs burrow into crevices in or near beds, behind wall plates, inside clocks and under carpets to await their next victim. They?ll crawl along electrical and plumbing conduits and air ducts in search of new prey, infecting adjacent rooms. Maids may inadvertently spread bed bugs through an entire hotel wing on cleaning carts. It doesn?t take long for a few bed bugs to become a major infestation.


Increasing bed bug infestations in all 50 states prompted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to declare a bed bug epidemic in April. Pest management companies have reported a 71% increase in bed bug complaints since 2001 Josh Oliver Color Rush Jersey , according to a survey by the National Pest Management Association (NPMA). Hotel outbreaks have become so numerous that NPMA and the American Hotel & Lodging Association are cohosting a National Bed Bug Symposium August 25 in New Jersey and August 27 in Seattle.


You don?t have to stay in a flophouse or hostel to encounter bed bugs. Bed bugs are just as prevalent in luxury hotels and respected national chains. ?Just because a motel (appears) clean and is expensive ... it does not mean that they don?t have bedbugs,? Derrick Bender, a faculty assistant at the University of Maryland?s Cumberland Extension Office, told the Cumberland Times-News. While staying at an upscale $300-a-night Annapolis hotel this summer, Bender and his wife were attacked by bed bugs.


Juries and judges have been siding with bed bug victims when cases go to court. In the 2003 landmark case (Matthias v. Accor Economy Lodging) Jawaan Taylor Color Rush Jersey , Toronto siblings received a jury award of $382,000 against Motel 6 after sharing a room with bed bugs. In 2006, a Chicago couple sued a Catskills resort for $20 million, claiming more than 500 bed bug bites left them physically and mentally scarred. ?I was miserable,? plaintiff Leslie Fox told the Associated Press. ?My skin felt as if it was on fire and I wanted to tear it off.? In 2007 Josh Allen Color Rush Jersey , New York opera star Allison Trainer sued the Hilton hotel chain for $6 million after suffering more than 100 bed bug bites at a Hilton Suites in Phoenix. ?They were all over the bed and the comforter and the pillows, and I pulled the sheets off and they were just everywhere,? she told ABC News. In 2008, a guest at San Francisco?s Ramada Plaza Hotel received a $71,000 out-of-court settlement Black A. J. Cann Jersey , the largest to date, after 400 bed bug bites left her with a disfiguring skin condition.


While some hoteliers have irresponsibly ignored guests? complaints, in most cases the hotel didn?t realize the room was infested when guests