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alphakennyone
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bassexpander
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You dug that up from back in January? 
I slept in a ranky old yogwan in Itaewon my first week here, and I couldn't sleep at night because I felt things crawling all over me! |
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roadwork
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| bassexpander wrote: |
You dug that up from back in January?
I slept in a ranky old yogwan in Itaewon my first week here, and I couldn't sleep at night because I felt things crawling all over me! |
Seoul Hotel, upstairs from the McDonald's in Itaewon? |
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alphakennyone
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| bassexpander wrote: |
You dug that up from back in January?
I slept in a ranky old yogwan in Itaewon my first week here, and I couldn't sleep at night because I felt things crawling all over me! |
A friend of mine recently got out of a bedbug infested apartment, so it got me curious about Korea. I guess they just started reappearing in America fairly recently (since we don't use heavy duty toxic pesticides as much anymore), so it makes sense they would make it to Korea as well. The tone of the article is funny though - an American species of bedbugs. |
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Snake Doctor
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| This was all over the U.S. news a few months ago. Bedbugs are fast becoming a worldwide problem. The situation is very bad in the united states as well. |
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jdog2050
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| This was all over the U.S. news a few months ago. Bedbugs are fast becoming a worldwide problem. The situation is very bad in the united states as well. |
Stayed at a hotel in Suyu that had them. God that was indeed awful. |
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djsmnc
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I used to work in a hotel and can say that bedbugs are far more prevalent than people realize. Even when hotels know they have them, they don't, of course, tell guests. Sure, they'll shut the room down when they find out there are bedbugs and they will bring exterminators in and destroy the mattresses, but that may be after a few people have slept there and picked some up.
I have personally seen and captured bedbugs as part of my job after someone complained. They are about a fraction of the size of a cockroach but bigger than a flea, more like a tick. They get bigger when full of blood.
I can safely say that they are the nastiest things I could ever wish on someone because they do leave welts after they bite and they are EXTREMELY difficult to get rid off. Like I said, usually the mattress in a hotel is destroyed and replaced. They come out when you sleep and you usually don't become aware of them until after you've been bitten. they have an anesthetic that goes into the bite area and lasts for about 1 hour. I freaked out after picking them up with a set of tweezers and putting them in plastic bag while wearing rubber gloves. Went home and washed my clothes in hot water and took a full, long shower.
Check the seams of your mattress anytime you stay at a new place and if there is a removable headboard, lift it and look behind it. If you see little insect casings or actual bugs, which in many cases you might mistake as being something simple and harmless, they could very well be bedbugs! |
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Snake Doctor
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| The really messed up part is, stay in a hotel and you can bring them home with you in your bags. Yech! |
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waynehead
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| Yes...long story short, a couple bottles of wine + a really cheap hotel in Rome, I woke up with about 100 bites all over my body. |
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alphakennyone
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I stayed in an SRO (aka flophouse) for a couple months after graduating Uni. Squashing a bedbug and seeing my blood squirt all over the mattress was one of those primeval and heeby-jeeby moments. Since I had no idea what bedbugs were, I figured they were fleas that had somehow migrated from the apartments across the alley where they had a lot of pet dogs - until I saw they were a lot bigger than a flea.
But yeah, seriously, it's worse than any infestation you can imagine. Worse than roaches, worse than ants, worse than mice for chrissake. If you ever stay at a cheap hotel, thank God if you don't bring them home with you. I'd say these days it's better to have hard-shell luggage than the canvass ones - they can burrow in to that. |
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pkang0202
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There are these things you can buy that supposedly get rid of bed bugs.
You slip it between the sheets or mattress in your bed. |
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djsmnc
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90005
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In recent years, bedbugs began showing up even in expensive hotels frequented by jet-set travelers.
"You can find them in the flop hotel downtown and you can find them in some of the most expensive hotels," said Richard Kramer, director of technical services for American Pest Management in Takoma Park, Md. "Sanitation really doesn't have anything to do with it. I think it has more to do with traveling."
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http://www.diatect.com/bed-bugs-biting-article.php
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| Cleanliness does not come into play in an infestation. Bed bugs can be found in low-rent apartments and high-end houses. The only requirement is that bed bugs have something to eat. |
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/08/BEDBUGS.TMP
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The bulk of Agurto's clients live in low-income hotels and shelters in the Tenderloin, but he's been called to five-star hotels and suburban homes in Walnut Creek.
Bedbugs have been found in moving vans, public transit seat cushions, airplanes, college dorms and even a Bay Area meditation retreat. They spread by hitching a ride on your clothes or in your luggage and crawling off to infest your home or apartment building.
Nearly 300 bedbug infestations were reported to San Francisco health officials in 2006, more than double the number in 2004. Most of the cases involved travelers discovering bedbugs in upscale hotels.
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Sector7G
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I can safely say that they are the nastiest things I could ever wish on someone because they do leave welts after they bite and they are |
Now that you mention it, after spending a night in a Daejeon motel I had a welt on my side that took 3 weeks to go away-3 weeks! I always figured it was a spider bite. Could it have been one of those damn bed bugs? |
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