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With Spring Break around here and summer just around the corner, families prepare for holiday travel. Nobody minds bringing home a little sand in their shoes after a week relaxing on the idyllic beach, but there is nothing that takes the joy of the holidays as unpacking a few bed bugs and jerseys bath.

Opera singer Alison Trainer got bedbugs while staying at a luxury hotel in Phoenix in 2007. She told ABC News that when she woke up at midnight, "They were all on the bed and the duvet and pillows and I pulled the sheets and they were everywhere."

"They are like little vampires, like stealth feeders at night," Michael Raupp, University of Maryland professor of entomology, told ABC News in the same report. Although many people wake up with itchy red bites on Next morning, nearly 50% of victims of bed bugs do not react. You can not tell you were the beds of these blood-sucking insects in your back from vacation.

In a 2004 survey of professionals in the fight against pests by Pest Control Technology magazine, hotels and motels were the most common sites of infestation of bedbugs, which represents over one third of complaints of bedbugs. Bed bugs are brought into hotels by the customers, they are not a problem of sanitation. These hitchhikers fan travel in luggage and clothing. They hide in beds and close to being close to their prey on unwary travelers. Although they do not transmit the disease, bed bugs feed on human blood and can traumatize their victims, causing anxiety, stress and insomnia. The size of an apple seed, bed bugs have flat, oval, wingless bodies that are light brown-red color.

Nearly eradicated in the 1950s, the ban of DDT coupled with increased international travel has led the resurgence of bedbugs in all 50 states. Hotels, motels, bed and breakfasts, inns, resort and cruise ships to provide perfect breeding sites and transmission of these pests. Many tourist cities, including New York, Boston, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, Honolulu and San Francisco were at war against a growing number of complaints of bed bugs tourists and residents. Concerned about the negative impact on the tourism industry has prompted many states to consider legislation of bed bugs.

Bed bugs are a thorny problem for the hotel industry. The rooms were free night can be infected by a guest the next. Infestations are often not detected, the spread to adjacent rooms through vents, ducts, plumbing, and by the maintenance staff. When bed bugs are discovered, now safer pest control chemicals need repeated applications. Rooms may be inadequately treated infection before being assigned to new customers.

There is no reason to dwell on vacation, travelers just take some precautions to avoid bringing bedbugs home.

Before you book your hotel reviews travelers on bedbugs check reporting websites popular TripAdvisor.com, HotelChatter.com and BedBugRegistry.com. Pack goods snap and storage bags, seal and protect mattresses and box springs with covers anti-bed bug if you put bugs home.

Before leaving the house spray your luggage inside and outside with a spray bed bug control luggage. We sell by JT Eaton and examine the product innovation permethrin for travelers.

When registering, inspecting the room. linens out and check the mattress, especially the seams and lapels, live bugs, shed exoskeletons and black or red spots stool. Use a flashlight to look behind the headboard, frames, in drawers, along baseboards. If you see signs of bed bugs, ask for another room or go in a different hotel.

During his stay at the hotel, keep your luggage and personal belongings of the bed, floor and upholstery. Store on luggage racks or tables and keep them.