Tackling the Bedbug Plague of San FranciscoAlysabeth Alexanderbyline‚ Dec. 07‚ 2005You cannot have missed the news by now-bedbugs are everywhere. But the worst of it is not that they plague the nation. Nor is it that they spread rapidly throughout the city, or that no one knows why and how they spread so quickly. The worst is that when it becomes personal, when these little vampires finally find you in your sleep and you become covered in those infamous itchy red welts, the infestation will grow to enormous proportions while you are running around trying to convince your landlord or city health inspectors that the problem actually exists. There are not enough resources to handle the bedbug explosion, and the strict requirements for a citation along with the lack of applying penalties to non-compliant landlords guarantees it will only get worse until our city makes some major changes. |