LEAMINGTON, Ont. -- Nine library branches in southwestern Ontario that were closed earlier this week over a bedbugs scare have reopened.
The Essex County library, which serves municipalities near Windsor, Ont., shut down all 14 of its branches Monday after finding the blood-sucking pests in three locations.
Since then, the library says all but five have been inspected and cleared, and the bedbug-free locations are once again open to the public.
On its website, the library says the inspections are being conducted with the help of sniffer dogs trained to detect the bugs.
It says that anyone worried that bedbugs may be in library materials should just put the items in a sealable plastic bag and return them to the library, which will decide whether to treat or discard them.
Bedbugs are small brownish insects that live off blood. They aren't a health hazard.
