New School Fear: Bedbugs Coming Home in Backpacks
(WSJ) — Those words, sent in a Sept. 29 letter to the homes of students at the New Explorations Into Science Technology + Math school on the Lower East Side, are enough to send waves of fear into any parent of school-age children in New York City.
The new academic year opened just as bedbugs became seemingly ubiquitous in the city, spreading to retailers, movie theaters, government buildings, hospitals — even the offices of Google and, most recently, this newspaper. School administrators, sensing a wave of parental concern, have adopted a new openness to discussing the risks of student-to-student bedbug transmission.
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