France's 'war on bedbugs' also pops up on trains ahead of 2024 Olympics [sports news]
Every year, millions of tourists head to Paris, France, worried about pickpockets, hustlers, and high prices. Now there's one more thing to worry about. Bedbugs.
On March 3, Paris Deputy Mayor Emmanuel Gregoire wrote a letter to French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron urging a solution to the bedbug problem, according to the BBC and other outlets.
"As France prepares to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the country must urgently develop a plan of action against this scourge," Gregoire wrote.
French Transport Minister Clement Vaughan also wrote on his X (formerly Twitter) that he plans to meet with public transport operators to discuss the issue in order to "reassure and protect public transport users."
France has been plagued by bedbugs in recent years, with videos of bedbug outbreaks in public spaces such as trains and movie theaters going viral on social media.
In 2018, the last year of the bedbug epidemic, 400,000 locations, including hotels, hospitals, and apartments, were reportedly infested, and a report released in July by the French National Agency for Food, Environment, Occupational Safety and Health (ANSES) found that between 2017 and 2022, more than one in 10 households across France had bedbugs.
"It's mainly the movement of people that brings bedbugs," Joanna Pite of ANSES told CNN, "and their numbers are increasing because they are becoming more and more resistant to insecticides."
"We're seeing more resistant bed bug populations, so there's no miraculous way to get rid of them," she added.
When asked about the rise in immigration, French Health Minister Aurélien Rousseau said, "It has nothing to do with immigration," noting that "when (people) return from abroad, they may bring bed bugs with them." 19가이드03
On March 3, Paris Deputy Mayor Emmanuel Gregoire wrote a letter to French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron urging a solution to the bedbug problem, according to the BBC and other outlets.
"As France prepares to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the country must urgently develop a plan of action against this scourge," Gregoire wrote.
French Transport Minister Clement Vaughan also wrote on his X (formerly Twitter) that he plans to meet with public transport operators to discuss the issue in order to "reassure and protect public transport users."
France has been plagued by bedbugs in recent years, with videos of bedbug outbreaks in public spaces such as trains and movie theaters going viral on social media.
In 2018, the last year of the bedbug epidemic, 400,000 locations, including hotels, hospitals, and apartments, were reportedly infested, and a report released in July by the French National Agency for Food, Environment, Occupational Safety and Health (ANSES) found that between 2017 and 2022, more than one in 10 households across France had bedbugs.
"It's mainly the movement of people that brings bedbugs," Joanna Pite of ANSES told CNN, "and their numbers are increasing because they are becoming more and more resistant to insecticides."
"We're seeing more resistant bed bug populations, so there's no miraculous way to get rid of them," she added.
When asked about the rise in immigration, French Health Minister Aurélien Rousseau said, "It has nothing to do with immigration," noting that "when (people) return from abroad, they may bring bed bugs with them." 19가이드03
2023-10-06 13:20
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