Bed bugs. Tiny. Silent. Blood-thirsty. Hard to kill. Make you itch.Your skin crawls no matter how you describe these blood-sucking pests hiding in and around your bed.If you’ve had to deal with bed bugs you know they can turn your life upside down. And if you just realized you might have them, you’re probably starting to fear the worst. You have a lot of questions. And you need answers.

CINCINNATI — In this Ohio city, it seems, it really is tough to stop the bedbugs from biting. When complaints about the bloodsucking insects first trickled in to Cincinnati’s public health department three years ago, officials assumed it was an anomaly — or perhaps the overactive imagination of a bug-phobic public. After all, Cimex lectularius had all but vanished here by the 1950s because of the frequent use of DDT and other now-banned pesticides. But that trickle of complaints has grown into a flood: A recent public survey found that 1 in every 6 people here has had a run-in with the biting bugs in the last 12 months. Read More…..