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Published: April 15, 2009
EPA summit tackles issue of bedbugs
By The Associated Press
ARLINGTON , Va. — "Don’t let the bedbugs bite.”

Doesn’t seem so bad in a cheerful bedtime rhyme, but it’s becoming a really big problem now that the nasty critters are invading hospitals, college dorms and even swanky hotels.

With the most effective pesticides banned, the government is trying to figure out how to respond to the biggest bedbug outbreak since World War II.

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