The French government has vowed action to \u201creassure and protect\u201d the public as its capital Paris reports a \u201cwidespread\u201d rise in bedbugs. <\/p>\n
French Transport Minister Clement Beaune said Friday he would \u201cbring together transport operators next week\u201d to \u201cundertake further action\u201d to \u201creassure and protect\u201d the public from the reported surge in the numbers of the blood-sucking insect. <\/p>\n
The announcement comes as calls for government action from Paris officials and trade unions mount after several videos of bedbugs spotted in public transport and other locations such as cinemas have surfaced on social media. <\/p>\n
Speaking to French TV station LCI on Friday, deputy mayor of Paris Emmanuel Gregoire called the phenomenon \u201cwidespread.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to understand that in reality no one is safe, obviously there are risk factors but in reality, you can catch bedbugs anywhere and bring them home,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Three years ago, the French government launched an anti-bedbug campaign, which includes a dedicated website and an information hotline, as numbers of the insect surged. <\/p>\n
But Gregoire said that despite that plan, \u201cthere are 3.6 million people who come into Paris every day, and bedbugs do not stop on the outskirts of the city.\u201d <\/p>\n
An expert from France\u2019s national health and sanitary body, Anses, said the problem was \u201can emerging phenomenon in France and almost everywhere in the world.\u201d <\/p>\n
She added there was an \u201cescalation\u201d in numbers because bedbugs were increasingly resistant to insecticides. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are observing more and more bedbug populations which are resistant, so there is no miracle treatment to get rid of them,\u201d Fite said. <\/p>\n
However, the Paris deputy mayor warned against \u201chysteria\u201d over the issue, noting there had been an \u201cincrease in Parisians who are referring to the town hall\u2019s information services for information on bedbugs\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cProfessional companies which intervene in residential areas are telling us that currently the proportion of interventions for bedbugs is atypical compared to normal and is increasing rapidly,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
The news comes as Paris gets ready to host the 2024 Olympics Games, but officials say they are not worried. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no threat to the Olympic Games,\u201d Gregoire said. <\/p>\n
\u201cBedbugs existed before and they will exist afterward,\u201d he added, saying the games were an \u201copportunity\u201d for everybody to work together on the issue. <\/p>\n\n
The French government has vowed action to \u201creassure and protect\u201d the public as its capital Paris reports a \u201cwidespread\u201d rise in bedbugs. French Transport Minister Clement Beaune said Friday he would \u201cbring together transport operators next week\u201d to \u201cundertake further action\u201d to \u201creassure and protect\u201d the public from the reported surge in the numbers of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}