A new concluded this week that bed bugs are such a challenge in France that they are now a danger to national health.
Creatures have grown in the world, but over the past decade, bed insects have proliferated; they are now discovered in all AMERICAN states and European countries have experienced massive infestations, adding Paris (which is the most visited capital in the world).
In early 2020, the French Pest Control Union stated that “the challenge of bed bugs in France has noticed that the number of cases has increased from 180,000 to 400,000 in just two years.”
The French government’s online page states that they arrived in France in the 1950s with the arrival of foreigners and that they proliferated due to their increasing resistance to insecticides. He says rooms and salons are basically more affected.
A New York Times article suggests that one in five Americans has been affected by bed bugs or knows who has them. Washington DC, Baltimore, Chicago and Los Angeles were the most affected.
Bed bugs are incredibly difficult to remove. They hitchhike in suitcases and clothes. They can live for several months without drinking human blood. To kill them, you want temperatures of minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit. They reproduce temporarily and are immune to common insecticides. They do not hinder cleaning or dirt, they are a leveler in that sense. They can lay two to five eggs a day and only want a pregnant female to start a calf. They are also incredibly hard to find.
Quoted in the New York Times, a report by French doctors, written in the New England Journal of Medicine in June, stated that “between bloody foods, bed bugs are hidden in dark places, such as cracks and slits of the house, walls, luggage, sheets, mattresses, boxes, sleepers, spaces the plinths Loose or husked wallpaper arrangements, electric transfer plates and electrical cable ducts.
Bed bugs dine more often at night, crawling from one host to another, leaving stings, but it’s mental pain that can affect the maximum. Bed bugs don’t bring infectious diseases.
The study analyzed 72,000 consultations with doctors across France from April 2019 to March 2020 that reported bed bug problems, or 110 out of every 100,000 inhabitants in France. 98% of reported cases had suffered skin lesions (itchy bites), 37% reported insomnia as a result and 37% said the presence of bed bugs had a negative effect on their work, family circle and social relations. Life.
As reported through RFI, they are increasing in number in warmer climates, with the two maximum affected regions in France being the Auvergne-Rhano-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur region, the Mediterranean coastal region. Very few cases have been reported in Paris, however, since knowledge comes from general practitioners, it is unlikely that they will come with tourists, who will probably go with their own doctor on their return, as The Local reports.
France introduced a prevention crusade in February, which shaped the basis of the crusade of one of Paris’ aspiring mayor, where other people can get recommendations on prevention and cure. There is a (Stop-punaises.gouv.fr) and a hotline (0806 706 806).
It remains to be noted what will have an effect on Covid-19 and the slowdown in global travel will have on the bedbug population.
To look for bed bugs, check the seams of the bed where they like to meet, then blow them with a hairdryer, as the hot air inspires them to faint.