NEWSCLOUD

People sharing stories for change

NewsCloud is an independent, community-powered news site:

  • Keep up with breaking news from around the web.
  • Share stories with your friends.
  • Join in discussions with other readers.
SIGN UP Existing members can sign in here
story photo

You were looking for:
Vancouver's Bed Bug Plague

At least once a week in Vancouver, bug exterminator Mark Amery enters a private home, lifts a mattress and watches the box spring move with blood-sucking vermin. It's an optical illusion caused by up to a thousand twitching bed bugs, each no larger than a lentil, which are infesting more houses, rental apartments and hotel rooms in Vancouver today than at any point in the city's modern history.

Continue to the story