School takes precautionary measures for bed bugs

Updated: Friday, April 4 2014, 08:14 PM EDT

Toronto, OH -

Parents of Toronto High School students were informed of a bed bug being found on a student on Tuesday, leaving them with questions about what the school is doing to make sure the school is clear of bed bugs.

Toronto City Schools superintendent Fred Burns wants parents to know that they have taking all the necessary precautions and he wants to bust the myths about bed bugs.

We have confirmed a case of bedbugs. It occurred here on Tuesday. We actually took it and had it analyzed by Rose Pest Control and they confirmed it was a bed bug, Burns said.

On Wednesday, a dog trained to find bed bugs came to sniff the school buildings for signs of these pests and Rose Pest Solutions came to make sure there were no signs of any bed bugs.

The dogs sniffed out the fact that it could have possibly had the odor of being on somebodys shoe. They definitely didnt find anything in searching the area in both buildings, Burns said.

Local exterminators said its a difficult process to get rid of bed bugs and anyone can get them.

Definitely a difficult process, one of the main things that I think is the biggest problem with the bed bugs is people not being aware that they are here, its a very big issue. Theres stigmas that go along with bed bugs as far as people being dirty and other things like that and thats totally untrue. Anybody and everybody is susceptible to getting bed bugs, T.J. Wright, a lead exterminator for the Pest Detective said.

Burns wants parents to know that their children are safe in the school.

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