October 5, 2010

Bedbugs close Sabattus school

The Associated Press

SABATTUS — The Sabattus Primary School in Maine is closed because bedbugs were discovered in two classrooms.

A close-up photo of a bedbug.

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Sabattus Superintendent James Hodgkin says the bedbugs were isolated to the two classrooms in the kindergarten through grade 2 building.

Hodgkin tells the Sun Journal newspaper a pest control company was brought in Monday to check the building after a parent came Friday to ask about bites on their child's arm.

School maintenance workers cleaned the rooms, but they will remain closed until after a pest control company treats them on Wednesday.

Hodgkin called the outbreak "pretty isolated," but officials decided to cancel school until the issue can be taken care of.

 

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