PureCare
In early October, bed bugs were taking over the city of Paris and the world was in panic — they were infesting the French metro. The truth, though, is that America has bed bugs too.
Sleep and wellness experts at PureCare revealed where they're hiding. To do this, research was modeled off of a method used by academic researchers, specifically in a 2015 study published in the Journal of Medical Entomology in which researchers investigated Google search to find patterns for queries including and related to bed bugs.
Google Trends analyzed ten of the most searched bed bug-related queries (like "bed bug bites" and "how to kill bed bugs"). The Bed Bug Search Score was measured by averaging the volume of searches across all ten queries. States with the highest score were determined as those with the biggest bed bug problem. For more details check out the full report on this analysis. Here are the most bothered states:
- Oklahoma
- West Virgina
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Indiana
- Arkansas
- Missouri
- South Dakota
- Ohio
- South Carolina
Here are the least bothered states:
- Oregon
- Massachusetts
- New Jersey
- Connecticut
- Washington
- California
- Minnesota
- Florida
- Colorado
- Wyoming
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