Originally Posted by poodlemom
Unfortunately, bed bugs will hitch a ride anywhere and everywhere including briefcases, handbags, back packs, the clothes on your body stuffed animals, wooden articles. These creatures are nasty and near impossible to get rid of. Even if, by some small miracle, DDT were brought back into use tomorrow, it would do little good, since these bugs have built up a resistance to that too.
Well then. how on earth is anyone supposed to get rid of them once and for all?
There's got to be a way, since no one has had them around until recently. I've read that they have jumped ship on the incoming loads from countries that have been infested with them for a very long time. Just the way the Black Plague began in Europe in the 1500s.
And today passengers on planes bring them in their luggage, hence the hotels/motels have gotten them and passed them on to their next guests. Even the very best hotels have had them.