Bedbug outbreaks are on the rise

Bedbug
Bedbug displayed next to the tip of a ballpoint pen.
Photo courtesy of the University of Wisconsin

Some of us may have heard the old admonition, "Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite." But recent bedbug outbreaks in Duluth and around the nation's hotels, hospitals and college dorms have turned the nursery rhyme into words of warning. Cathy Wurzer spoke with Jeff Hahn, an entomologist from the University of Minnesota.

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