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Forget monsters in the closet. In mattresses, under carpet and floorboards, and behind pictures and wallpaper lurk the bedbugs of nursery-rhyme fame. The bloodsucking pests, which resemble apple seeds and are attracted by human body heat, practically disappeared in the 1950s, but they are staging a comeback in homes and at hotels across the country.
Pest-control service Orkin, Inc., has found bedbugs in 35 states and says it is treating five times more infestations than it did two years ago. "Once inside your home or hotel, bedbugs can spread rapidly from room to room.... They are difficult to control," the company says on its Web site.
Unwary hotel guests who wake covered in bites from the nocturnal menace are beginning to file suits against the hotels, alleging negligence, fraud, and misconduct. Suits pending in Maryland and New York seek both compensatory and punitive damages, and the Seventh Circuit upheld a large punitive...
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