Bed Bug Infestation Shuts Down South Florida Library

The Oakland Park library has been shut down since Thursday because of an outbreak of bed bugs, the Sun-Sentinel reports.

According to the article, patrons at the public computer terminals there started complaining they were being bitten. Bed bugs have infested libraries throughout the country, to the point some even use bedbug-sniffing dogs to track down potential problems. The reason: there are so many people spending time in the buildings, it's easy for someone to unknowingly carry in the bugs on their clothing from an infested home. The bugs can also come into libraries in the binding of books returned from infested homes

The library was being fumigated and was expected to re-open today (Dec. 9).

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Source: Sun-Sentinel