Kelowna Normal Hospital take care of mattress bug outbreak in employees room – Kelowna Information – Castanet.internet

Kelowna Normal Hospital is used to coping with medical outbreaks, however mattress bugs are a completely totally different matter.

Castanet obtained data that employees at KGH had been coping with a mattress bug outbreak in a employees room in early September.

A media spokesperson for Inside Well being confirmed the current employees room outbreak.

“On Sept. 7 and pest management was instantly introduced in and efficiently accomplished extermination,” IH stated.

Mattress bugs do not journey straight on folks, quite they connect themselves to clothes, linens, or furnishings and may even get into baggage. Due to this folks can unfold mattress bugs to others, with out even understanding it.

Mattress bugs are typically not thought of to be a well being hazard, though there was no less than one documented case of anemia. Nevertheless the itchy welts they go away pose an issue for sufferers.

The Inside Well being spokesperson tells Castanet that they known as pest management, “the priority was restricted to the one space and there have been no additional points.”