Bedbug Epidemic
Call me dumb, but I always figured bedbugs were in the category of the sandman and the tooth-fairy: nighttime children myth. "Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite" was a saying to freak kids out. Boy. was I wrong.
According to the AP there is a worldwide bedbug epidemic and the American epicenter is New York City.
The elusive critters avoid light and attack in the middle of the night. About the size of an apple seed, a bedbug hides among cracks and crevices in furniture and walls, and can disappear into the edge of a picture frame or between buttons on an alarm clock.
People who have bedbugs often never see them alive. The only signs are pepper-like spots of their fecal matter, specks of dried blood on bedsheets, and of course, the bites. The scourge is nearly impossible to eradicate; the creatures can go a year without feeding, they reproduce rapidly and don't die easily.
I am officially freaked out and ready to live in a bubble...
