Oh, great: "[R]esearchers in Vancouver report that they've found bed bugs with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. The scientists studied five bed bugs, taken from three patients treated at St. Paul's Hospital. All three patients were residents of Vancouver's poor Downtown Eastside, where both bed bugs and MRSA have been on the rise in recent years. The researchers wanted to see if there was a connection. So they crushed and analyzed the bugs and found three samples with MRSA, the superbug that is resistant to most commonly used antibiotics."

So I saw my first bed bug in New York City this weekend and, thank god, it was not in my apartment. It was in a pretty bad place, though. On a bus, the M9, on the sleeve of the windbreaker of a man sitting right next to me and my kid and my kid's friend. We were with my kid's friend's mom, too, heading to their house to have lunch after karate class. (The kids are in the class, not us adults. Still, though, I've been watching. So don't fuck with me.) READ MORE

The tireless, viral-seeking CGI auteurs over at Next Media Animation turn their attention to the bed bug epidemic, and the results are... well, they're pretty good! In the spirit of the season, this is kind of like a humorous horror flick. If you are confronted with the actual horror of bed bugs, here's a handy guide to help you through it.