NEW HAVEN — Bed bugs are causing a stir in New Haven, where the blood-sucking parasites have been making unwelcome appearances in places including Yale University.
In recent weeks, students at a city high school refused to enter a classroom where the bugs had been spotted, and Yale’s School of Medicine had to find new accommodations for visiting accepted students after bugs were seen in a dorm.
A New Haven Health Department director says the city of New Haven only recently began keeping a tally, but anecdotal reports of bed bugs have been on the rise in recent years.
An entomologist with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station says a rash of reports may suggest a heightened level of anxiety about the insects, and not an actual increase in their numbers.
