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Stringer Begs Budget Help for 'Horrific' Rat Problem

Scott Stringer this morning urged the mayor and the City Council to restore pest control funding crucial for repelling a coming rodent invasion.

“It seems to us incredible that with this rat epidemic reaching epic proportions the City of New York would cut pest control workers by close to 70 percent,” Stringer told a group Read More

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Bed Bugs Develop Expensive Taste

They’re now snacking on the shame-silenced residents of the Upper East Side. New York relates the tale of one mother from the East Eighties, whose debugging regimen required relocating to the family’s weekend home for a full two months:

Margaret says she “felt a strange mixture of being exhausted, defeated, and paranoid that Read More

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Lice Are the New Bedbugs

Lice are the latest source of parasite paranoia, but don’t worry: The Times reports that plenty of people will charge you plenty of money to get rid of them:

“I certainly wasn’t going to pick them out myself,” the mother said, explaining that she felt too repulsed to be fully functional. The fee for rendering Read More