Brooklyn’s Biggest Bed Bug Scares: An Uncomfortable Retrospective
Kings County Hospital
The forever embattled hospital added one more item to its list of PR problems in July 2010, courtesy of one lone, extremely destructive bed bug.
After an insect was found on a patient in the hospital, one of their triage rooms was subsequently closed for inspection and fumigation, amid widespread speculation.
A spokesperson for the hospital told reporters at the time, “There is no infestation. We are talking about one patient,” shortly before asking the journalists to leave the hospital’s grounds.