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Paris’ Exploding Bed Bug Issue—What’s The Solution For Travelers?
03.10.2023 - 20:03 / forbes.com / Emmanuel Grégoire
It's every tourist's nightmare—arriving on that trip in the French capital, to discover you are not the only creatures in your hotel room. This week, the deputy mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Gregoire announced that "no one was safe" and that the bed bug issue was "widespread." It begs the questions: Is it such a huge issue? Is it just Paris? And what can hoteliers and tourists do about it?
The "punaises de lit" issue is all over the French press, predominantly because aside from being something that disgusts us, it's likely to feature heavily in the planning for Paris' upcoming Olympic Games in summer 2024.
France's Health magazine this week labelled bed bugs a source of stress, the reason for incredible itchiness and a social isolator, saying that since September, people have been talking about them more on social media (#punaisedelit), claiming they have been discovered in not just greater numbers in hotels but also across public transport (France's long-distance TGV train service) and in Parisian cinemas.
However, the French capital is probably not worse because of any reason pertaining to France—bed bugs are on the rise everywhere, and France is the No. 1 visited country and Paris, the most visited city in the world. Put simply, people are on the move more and social media makes us more aware.
For the past few decades, bed bugs have managed to increasingly pervade countries around the world and in greater numbers, because of increased globalisation, the increase in shipping container movement and as DDT and other chemicals have been banned. Also, as we find cockroaches less and less in our homes, we have also lost one of bed bugs' main predators.
Plus, according to expert Jean-Michel Berenger, an entomologist at Marseille's main hospital and France's leading expert according to the BBC, we would expect a large increase in September because it’s when travelers return from holidays in July and August. The BBC adds that the claims they have been seen in cinemas and trains have also not been officially proven.
It is a concern, though, because of the increase year-on-year. The French government launched a campaign in March 2022 because the situation had gotten so bad; between 2017 and 2022 it was estimated that more than one in 10 homes were infested with bed bugs. They are a great social leveler—they can be found just as often in clean homes and hotels as in dirty ones. Due to the fact that everyone is equally affected, eradicating the city of them has formed part of political campaigns, as was the case for the Paris mayoral race in 2020.
Between 2019 and 2020, in mainland France, there were about 72,000 trips to the doctor that reported or were concerned about bed bugs. At the moment, there is a concern
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