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Their needles are always moving.\u00a0 The Quilters of Valor churned out more than 1,000 blankets for wounded soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan, but now their production has been halted.<\/p>\nTheir needles are always moving.\u00a0 The Quilters of Valor churned out more than 1,000 blankets for wounded soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan, but now their production has been halted.<\/p>\n
The Minneapolis Department of Veterans Affairs has asked the women to cool their quilting jets.\u00a0 The VA says they will no longer accept any handmade goodies because of bed bugs.\u00a0 The quilters were told it is part of a nationwide directive to stop the critters from spreading through Veteran’s facilities.<\/p>\n
The quilters have told a local newspaper that they are little offended by the order, since they use new fabric and typically work on quilts at local stores that offer an open space for the women to work.\u00a0 But it seems bed bugs are a growing concern every where.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s the deal with bed bugs?<\/strong> Once the bugs are in a home, they can attach to your clothes and be spread from one room to another.\u00a0By the time a homeowner realizes they have bed bugs, it\u2019s likely they have tracked the bugs throughout the house.\u00a0Treatment of a whole house can cost thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n An infested homeowner can also take the bugs to work with them, infesting their cubicle and work place.\u00a0 Bed bugs can lay upwards of five eggs a day and multiple rapidly, which is why the quilters will have to lay off their chartiable work for awhile.\u00a0 At least until the bed bug population is under control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Their needles are always moving.\u00a0 The Quilters of Valor churned out more than 1,000 blankets for wounded soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan, but now their production has been halted. The Minneapolis Department of Veterans Affairs has asked the women to cool their quilting jets.\u00a0 The VA says they will no longer accept any handmade goodies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_autoblog_aioseo_focus_keyphrase":"","_autoblog_aioseo_title":"","_autoblog_aioseo_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-health-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
\nThe tiny bugs are making their presence felt all across the U.S.\u00a0Orkin, a nationwide pest control service, says the number of apple-seed sized bugs is on the rise.\u00a0Typically the bugs only come out at night.\u00a0\u00a0 Like mosquitoes, they feed on blood from biting humans.\u00a0Most people don\u2019t see the bugs; instead they see the bites on their skin.\u00a0 The itchy bumps are small bites that can be found all over the body, but hot spots\u00a0are the neck, legs, and arms.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/bedbug.jpg\")
A costly problem<\/strong>
\nOnce the bugs hit a house they are tough to kill.\u00a0 A local Orkin representative says it costs several hundred dollars per room to treat for\u00a0bed bugs\u00a0and it often takes more than one treatment to kill them.<\/p>\n