'Super' Bedbugs Bounce Back

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Bedbugs bounce back: Outbreaks in all 50 states

Meredith May, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sunday, April 8, 2007

Walter has stopped hugging his friends. He is throwing out his clothes and furniture, and he rarely comes out of his Tenderloin hotel room anymore.

He's not suicidal, but darn near. He has bedbugs.


Nearly eradicated in the United States 50 years ago, resistant strains of "super" bedbugs are infesting mattresses at an alarming rate. In what's being touted as the biggest mystery in entomology, all 50 states are reporting outbreaks of the blood-sucking nocturnal critters.

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