Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite

There is a bedbug epidemic in New York City!!!

Now I'm TOTALLY FREAKED OUT, not to mention itching all over. How can I prevent those blood suckers from attacking my apartment? How do I know they are not already here? I'm going totally paranoid. *sob* I want to move back to Oregon....

UPDATE: Four floors of my apartment building down. Building maintenance staff scrambling to book exterminators and pleading with tenants not to bomb their apartments because it will spread infestation to adjacent units. Co-worker's Astoria apartment now down as well. He had bedbug bites all over his body. Had to resist the urge to hose him down before he enters office. It's only a matter of time...