Mayor says ‘there is no complacency’ as video appears to show insect on tube after outbreaks reported in Paris
A viral video at the weekend, which purported to show a bedbug on a passenger’s leg on the Victoria line and has been viewed more than 1m times, has stoked alarm that the UK could face similar problems to the French capital, where there have reportedly been growing numbers of the blood-sucking insects in flats, cinemas and trains., Khan said: “This is a real source of concern. People are worried about these bugs in Paris causing a problem in London.
Often they are transported in luggage, secreting themselves in travellers’ suitcases and on clothing. There is often an increase in July and August, when a lot of people are on the move.Once imported they can hide in small crevices, often in bedroom furniture, or even skirting boards or behind mirrors and pictures, and bite at night. They are not known to transmit disease and their bite is painless but will leave a red, itchy mark.
Prof James Logan of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine said bed bugs were “on the increase globally” because they were “becoming resistant to insecticides that we normally use to kill them. We are also seeing increasing travel, which helps them to spread.” Prof Robert Smith of the University of Huddersfield said that people should not be too alarmed by increased reports of bed bugs as these were likely to “reflect widespread media coverage over the last week or so” rather than an invasion from
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