Blood-Sucking Bed Bugs Invade NY Subway
by Judd WileyMay 8th, 2008, 5:13 pm
The disgusting, overcrowded, refuse-strewn, bum-infested New York subway is also apparently home to blood-sucking bed bugs, according to the NY Post.
The blood-sucking insects aren’t just living with New Yorkers at home - they’re on the subways, too …
At a recent Department of Housing, Preservation and Development forum on the subject, a city bedbug educator admitted to seeing the pests on benches in subway stations - in one case, catching a ride on an unsuspecting straphanger’s caboose at Brooklyn’s Hoyt-Schermerhorn station …
A bed bug is a small insect that lives by hematophagy - feeding on the blood of humans and other warm-blooded hosts.
When bitten, a small, hard, swollen, white welt develops on the skin, which is usually accompanied by severe itching that lasts for several hours to days. People sometimes develop skin infections and scars from scratching the bites.
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