Bed Bugs Making Their Way Into Schools
Alana Korol
September 29, 2010
Having invaded New York City’s bedrooms, retail stores, movie theaters, and offices, bed bugs are now showing up with growing frequency in another place: public schools.
According to Education Department records, there were 1,019 confirmed cases of bedbugs in the 2009-10 school year — an 88 percent increase from the previous school year.
Records show that the city’s 311 helplines have received 22 calls about bedbugs in schools so far this month. It is unclear whether additional cases were reported by other means.
School officials declined to provide the total number of confirmed cases since classes started on Sept. 8. However, the Education Department spokeswoman, Marge Feinberg, said there had been no instances of city schools being closed because of bedbugs.
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