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How to Avoid Bringing Home Bedbugs
Expert exterminator tips for keeping the menaces at bay.
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Yikes! If it’s any consolation, you're not alone in your scratching. Two very disgruntled NYC tourists recently posted a gristly video to YouTube. (Gothamist called it “the Blair Witch Project of bedbug videos.”) The chronicle showed how the couple’s arms and torsos had become a veritable feast for a horde of hungry bedbugs in a Manhattan hotel on Central Park West.