Via B.K.: "bed bugs in the news suddenly? why? It's not like they materialized a month ago. So why the sudden press? Did the alpha bed bug bring it's vast fortune over to Ketchum for a little press, bummed by all the attention the swine flu, mad cow, & flesh eating viruses always get? (SFist would also like to add pit bulls to the list.) WTF. Let's shelve this topic where it belongs...in our mattresses."