I had them when I lived on Homewood. This was back in 2006 before the coverage was so widespread in the media, so I had no idea what the heck these bumps forming on my arms were from - at first I thought I was allergic to a new bottle of Febreze I had bought.
Finally after a month or two I saw one of the little buggers on my pillow and killed it very gently to preserve the look of the thing - then searched the internet until I found the right bug.
I got an exterminator in, and he did two rounds of spraying to kill everything. They do use chemicals, and those chemicals are bad for you. That's why it's a real hassle when they spray, you have to wash everything afterwards to get the chemicals off. Used to be, they used DDT, so they would spray once and everything was dead. The chemicals they use now don't kill the eggs, only the hatched bugs, so that's why they have to spray twice and sometimes three times (if some hatch and then lay eggs before you spray the second time).
I had just moved into my unit and then went on vacation to China, so I have no idea if I brought them back or if they were already there.
