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Chicken farm worker unprepared for 'seething mass' of bedbugs
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By Geoff Leo, CBC News Posted: Aug 31, 2015 5:30 AM CT Last Updated: Aug 31, 2015 5:30 AM CT
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Sean Pender says he couldn't believe his eyes when he started working at Pedigree Poultry a couple of weeks ago.
"When I get there they tell us there's going to be wood ticks. Those are not wood ticks, those are bedbugs," Pender said.
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He said they were cleaning up a barn where chickens had been laying eggs for a year. The work involved pulling out metal racks.
"You'd pull it out and let it drop and bang," Pender said. "Just a seething mass of them all over the ground...
"I ended up with [bedbugs] around the tops of my socks, just drinking blood like a whole line of them right around the top of my socks as far as they would go because I'm wearing shorts all the time."
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Dr. Jenny Fricke said bedbug infestations of poultry barns have "been reported to be increasing over recent years."
She said chicken farms provide a perfect environment for bedbugs.
"They will feed on anything with blood. So if they're introduced into a poultry barn environment there is a wealth of different hosts for them to feed upon."
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saska...epared-for-seething-mass-of-bedbugs-1.3207955
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By Geoff Leo, CBC News Posted: Aug 31, 2015 5:30 AM CT Last Updated: Aug 31, 2015 5:30 AM CT
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Sean Pender says he couldn't believe his eyes when he started working at Pedigree Poultry a couple of weeks ago.
"When I get there they tell us there's going to be wood ticks. Those are not wood ticks, those are bedbugs," Pender said.
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He said they were cleaning up a barn where chickens had been laying eggs for a year. The work involved pulling out metal racks.
"You'd pull it out and let it drop and bang," Pender said. "Just a seething mass of them all over the ground...
"I ended up with [bedbugs] around the tops of my socks, just drinking blood like a whole line of them right around the top of my socks as far as they would go because I'm wearing shorts all the time."
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Dr. Jenny Fricke said bedbug infestations of poultry barns have "been reported to be increasing over recent years."
She said chicken farms provide a perfect environment for bedbugs.
"They will feed on anything with blood. So if they're introduced into a poultry barn environment there is a wealth of different hosts for them to feed upon."
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saska...epared-for-seething-mass-of-bedbugs-1.3207955