The New York City media was busy with bed bug news yesterday, including that of a new bed bug page from the New York City Department of Health, as well as new rules for treatment in rental units, and regarding protocols professionals use to treat bed bugs. <\/p>\n
Last year, the New York City Bed Bug Advisory Board made a number of recommendations. The city awarded $500K in funding to implement a number of these including an internet bed bug portal. Yesterday, the site Bed Bugs: Information, Resources, and Management for New York City Residents was launched with educational information, though it sounds like theyre not quite done with it yet. <\/p>\n
The site hosts the 2010 guide Preventing and Getting Rid of Bed Bugs Safely (English PDF; also available from the portal in six other languages), and features lots of bed bug resources, as well as interactive lessons on topics including: <\/p>\n
Most of these arent really interactive, consisting of an audio track, one image, and some bulleted points which appear at intervals. Still, it covers the basics and is a helpful introduction. <\/p>\n
The Myths and Facts quiz is interactive: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I had some initial problems with the interactive tutorial on several browsers for the Mac, but it all seems to be working well today on Firefox. [I have removed a now pointless discussion of the minor glitches I was seeing in various browsers.] <\/p>\n
In the latest version of Safari for Mac, however, you cant complete the Myths and Facts quiz, because the next button doesnt work; you get only one Myth or Fact and the partys over. Safari users will want to use Firefox, as they probably want to much of the time anyway. <\/p>\n
Below that interactive table, the standalone sections seem to be pretty informative. <\/p>\n
There is a section also called What are bed bugs? (much more helpful than the one above it) which goes to a Bed Bugs Basics page, with information on bed bug identification (Nice, but they need some unfed and fed first instar photos!), a link entitled, Is it a Bed Bug, Cockroach, or Carpet Beetle? (PDF) good, but bring on the book lice (psocids) and the spider beetles, which are commonly mistaken for bed bugs by our readers. <\/p>\n
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