Bedbugs go wherever people go, and they have become a nightmare haunting France for weeks.
‘What he took from us is irreplaceable’ Family of man killed in DUI crash in Clay County react to driver’s sentencingThis 2022 photo provided Wednesday Oct.4; 2023 by entomologist Jean-Michel Berenger, who raises bedbugs in his lab, shows a bedbug in Marseille, southern France. The French government has been forced to step in to calm a nation increasingly anxious about bedbugs. – They creep, they crawl, they feast on your blood as you sleep.
“There is no resurgence of cases,” Beaune said, telling reporters that 37 cases reported in the bus and Metro system and a dozen others on trains proved unfounded — as did viral videos on social media of tiny creatures supposedly burrowing in the seat of a fast train.that neither jump nor fly get around as easily as people travel from city to city and nation to nation, and they have become increasingly resistant to insecticides.
But silence is a mistake, experts say. No social category is immune to finding bedbugs in their clothing, blankets or mattresses. Kevin Le Mestre, director of Lutte Antinuisible, said his company is getting “dozens and dozens” of calls. In the past, he said, people often didn’t react, even to bites.
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