Tune in to Around the World Radio tomorrow (July 1, 2010) to listen to Bed Bug Central’s Rick Cooper offer travel tips to help you avoid bed bugs on your next vacation.  You can listen in live on the web at 1:20 p.m. ET/12:20 p.m. CT,  or if you’re in the Santa Barbara area, tune [...]

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Big news for renters in New York: If you’re lucky, landlords will soon have to disclose a building’s history of bed bugs to potential tenants. The New York state Senate and Assembly both passed a bill requiring just that, and now it’s up to Governor David Paterson to sign the bill, but that could take [...]

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…but we’ll just call it a sign of the times.
Goldman Sachs was treated for bed bugs recently, according to an ABC News story.  Whether the company really had a bed bug problem isn’t clear, but it is a good reminder that bed bugs are amazing hitchhikers, and they’re happy to feast on anyone — from [...]

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Tampabay.com featured some great tips from NPMA on how to avoid bed bugs when vacation.  We’d like to add one of our own that we’ve found helpful.
Always check behind the headboard on your hotel’s bed. Sometimes the hotel room headboards just snap off and you can take a look easily. In cases where the headboard [...]

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Our company Protect-A-Bed now offers a full bed solution for those wanting to protect themselves from bed bugs. The new Protect-A-Bed Bed Bug Protection Kit includes all the products you need to keep the bed bug plague from taking over your bedroom.
Each Bed Bug Protection Kit includes the following products:

One AllerZip 6-sided Mattress Encasement
One Bed [...]

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