http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/world/europe/in-naples-italy-crying-foul-over-reports-of-cockroaches.html
New
York Times
16
July 2012
Naples Journal
By
ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
NAPLES,
Italy - It began with ominous reports of an invasion of oversize red
cockroaches, the American type, which were not only driving out the native
Neapolitan black cockroaches but also possibly carrying deadly diseases.
The
headline in the newspaper Il Mattino of Naples, Italy, reads "City Invaded
by Red Cockroaches - Hepatitis and Typhoid Infection Risk." But health
authorities and city officials say the reports are untrue.
It
did not matter that city and health officials scoffed at the reports. The
summer - high season for cockroaches and bottom-of-the-barrel stories in the
Italian news media - was upon the land, and the story could not be squelched,
no matter how many entomologists protested. [...]