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Posted by Admin on 12/7/2009 12:49 AM | Comments (8)

Michael is a strong young man, physically and mentally. Everyone who knows him understands he loves his food and is definitely not a fussy eater. He tolerates the meals of pork fat and bread. (At least it's in solid form he says.) He doesn't complain about the swill they translate as 'the insides of a bird's stomach'. What is begining to get him down, is being continually bitten by the bugs (they have told him they are 'poloska', which doesn't seem to help). Mike says they are little bugs about 5mm in length and can be seen on the floor and walls. During the night they bite when you are sleeping. He is worried about blood infection or indeed cross infection. He is after all, sharing a cell, with those accused of drug offences and violent crimes. Can anybody throw any light on this or offer any advice?

He has complained to the prison authorities, who have given him a spray to use on the floor of the cell. The description he has been given is 'chlorine'. The problem is they are locked in this poorly ventilated cell for 23 hours a day. When they use the spray, it causes breathing difficulties. Michael has asked, 'has anyone any suggestions?'.

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This is awful it just gets worse and worse. I admire Mike for coping in these conditions. Lets hope he gets home soon from this nightmare.

From looking on the internet I think they are bed bugs. I have copied the info below from one website I came across. Hope it helps.

Advice for bed bug

Treatment with Protector C, Fortefog Fumers and Residex P.
These parasites are blood feeders, and they crawl into beds during the night while their victims are sleeping. The bite is painless and a number of bed bugs may feed for an extended period of time on any area of exposed skin. The resulting bite wound may show generalized minor swelling into a raised bump followed by itching. Fortunately, bed bugs do not carry or transmit any human disease, but the mere presence of any blood-feeding insect is disconcerting, at best.

Eggs are deposited in small cracks in the bed frame, mattress seams, or in baseboards, trim or furniture near the bed. The nymphs and the adults reside near one another, hiding in such cracks awaiting nightfall when they might venture out to feed. In some cases, the offending bed bugs are harboring many feet from the bed in cracks in furniture, baseboards, doorframes, or even within voids in the wall. If populations become large, or when a host becomes scarce because no one sleeps in the bed for a period of time, bed bugs may crawl into other rooms or squeeze through walls to enter neighbouring locations. They may also be transported from place to place hiding in furniture.

Bed bugs are still not seen much in single-family homes, but they have become more commonplace in motels, hotels, and apartment buildings. Typically, an infestation begins in a single motel/hotel room or apartment and then spreads to neighboring units. Bed bugs spend the day resting in cracks or voids of furniture or walls.

To the parents of Jason McGoldrick and Michael Turner.

I have written to you twice on the "contact" link on this web site proposing the offer of help in Hungary from the British community in Budapest, but I have had no response.

Please write or telephone on the number I gave.

David Kirkby

the first thing to do when Mike gets back is a full medical examination!! God help Hungary if he has picked up an infection of any sort!!!!!!

The bugs that are described are probably bed bugs (Cimex lectularius). Bed bugs seem to possess all of the necessary prerequisites for being capable of passing diseases from one host to another, but there have been no known cases of bed bugs passing disease from host to host. They live in all furnishings, esp sides of matresses seating etc.............prob best to squash as many as possible rather than use the 'chlorine spray'.
Hope this helps :O)

You are all talking about Mike, and this situation is truly awful, but don't forget Jason is going through this as well.

Poor Mike, if possible please send him my wishes. These bugs sound awful. I'm in agreement with everyone else that they are probably bed bugs but who knows they could be something more sinister. My advice to mike would be if possible grease a perimeter around the bed if possible, he could use soap, shower gel, salt toothpaste even (i'm trying to imagine what materials he will have to hand) possibly even rubbing the pork fat. This should create a barrier on the floor and walls around his bed preventing any more bugs entering, then get him to use the spay within this zone to try and cull them. Hope this may be of some use.

what a disgrace this so called british government is! Do we not pay our taxes for the very purpose these two individuals now find themselves in??
And why should anyone in their right mind do business with a country who has no regard for foreign nationals trying to make a living honestly. The Foreign Secretary should be ashamed of himself and as for Gordon Brown take a look at the front any UK passport. What hope has any UK citizen have in working overseas when their own government has no teeth or inclination to safeguard their human rights.

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