Bed Bug Blog

A Jersey City public school sprayed for bedbugs yesterday after discovering a bedbug on a student last week, a school official confirmed today..
A teacher at School 14, the Ollie Culbreth Jr. School, found an insect on a preschool student, and the school nurse confirmed that it was a bedbug, said Paula Christen, a spokeswoman for the Jersey City Public Schools.
No other bed bugs have been seen at the school, but officials decided to spray the building's first floor, the only floor the child was on, as a precaution, Christen said.
Asked whether other schools have sprayed for bedbugs, Christen said "not to my knowledge at this point."
She said school officials haven't been warned to be on the lookout for the bugs, but that she wouldn't be surprised if they were, since "they're rampant all over the place."

Author: Amy Sara Clark