Emergency: French "Super" Bed Bugs heading from Paris to the UK

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Flights will be grounded if 'super-bedbugs' are found on board aircraft, and hotel owners will deploy pest control experts to deep clean the rooms of those arriving from France - as the UK tourist industry braces for an invasion of the critters from Paris​

• A hotel chain has been quizzing guests at check in about prior visits to France
• Air France has announced that it will ground aircraft with bed bugs on board

Hotels and transport operators are braced for an invasion of 'super-bedbugs' as an infestation in Paris threatens to sweep through the UK.

The Mail on Sunday has learnt that a major UK hotel chain has been quizzing guests as they check in on whether they have arrived from France. The rooms of those who have are given a deep clean by pest control experts when they leave.

Meanwhile, Air France, which runs up to six direct flights a day from Paris to London, said it will ground any aircraft if bedbugs are detected on board.

The news comes as experts are warning that these 'super-bedbugs' have developed a resistance to insecticides.

'It's harder to kill them than it's ever been,' said Nicolas Roux de Bezieux, of pest control website badbugs.fr. 'Pest controllers have to return to kill them again because they survive the spray.'

An outbreak of the blood-sucking insects, whose bites cause painful itching, has provoked a wave of disgust in Paris, with residents and tourists taking to social media to post images of the bugs crawling across hotel bed sheets and train seats.

UK tourist industry braces for an invasion of bedbugs from Paris

A major UK hotel chain has been quizzing guests on check in as the hotel and transport industry brace themselves for an invasion of 'super bedbugs' following the infestation in Paris

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[Womb Raider]

fukk BED BUGS MAN

 

[Heimdall]

ffs

 

[Billie Jean]

I seen bytches on tiktok talking bout how they got bedbugs from sitting on trains in europe or being in public

 

[Fill Collins]

The French invented wine to get the taste of dikk out they mouths, huge fukking shocker they're sleeping with big ass lice

 

[Juggalo Fred]

Everyone in France right now:

 

[Collateral]

Yall better keep that shyt over there on god

 

[69 others]

Ban these nasty fukkers from flying in

 

[Heimdall]

I feel like I read somewhere recently that it might not be that bad. I'm not sure about that insecticide resistance though

(and I don't know why these articles have to include so many pictures of these things...)

‘Bedbugs don’t discriminate’: Paris ‘scourge’ sparks fears of international infestation

After French capital hosted fashion week and Rugby World Cup there are concerns the problem will spread

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But social media has already stoked fears that it may be too late. This week there was a surge in Google searches in the UK for bedbugs, while tensions on the trains and streets are running high. “My friend is on a train from Birmingham to Leicester and she’s just seen a bedbug,” tweeted Londoner Tian-Demi Douglas on Monday. “The whole carriage is screaming. It’s game over, lads. We’re fukked.”

Douglas later said that her friend was planning to take precautionary measures, soaking her shoes in boiling water, washing her clothes at 90C (194F) and even rubbing alcohol over her handbag.

In London in particular, which receives 15 Eurostar trains direct from Paris every day, there is a sense of bracing for impact, and a new undercurrent of threat to every houseguest and fortuitous street find.

For those already losing sleep over phantom bites, the experts’ take on the “scourge” reported in Paris may not bring peace: there are just as many bedbugs now as there ever were – and probably much the same number in London and New York.

“The French public is just becoming more aware now,” says Manov.

Daniel Neves, from France but operating in London as Inoculand, says he has not heard of “any massive wave” from his colleagues in Paris. He agreed that knowledge of the problem – and even the pest itself – was generally lower across the Channel.

“When I am in France and attend conferences or speak with people and tell them what I see in London, they show mostly disbelief,” he says. “Some do not have a clue what punaises de lit are … In France, it would be perceived as such an incredible thing to suffer from that it would cause a huge uproar.”

While bedbugs are found wherever there are people in large numbers, major cities periodically experience surges. New York buckled under an “invasion” of bedbugs in 2010, which claimed the mammoth Niketown store on 57th Street and the city’s Google HQ.

But the periodic nature of bedbugs’ bloom is hard to separate from a variety of factors, such as rising temperatures – they thrive in warmer climates and buildings – and media attention.

In recent warmer summers in the UK, pest control exterminators have been struggling to keep pace with demand. As Lirian Graca of Mercury Pest Control says: “it’s always been an increasing issue with bedbugs.”

While there may be no greater risk than usual of bringing home a bedbug in one’s baggage, pest professionals say that the panic over Paris may help to make people more conscious of the threat. “It’s better to be aware, and tackle the problem sooner,” says Manov.

 

[jdubnyce]

Those shyts better not cross the Atlantic

 

[Alix217]

Bed bugs are horrendous. Had them once. You have no idea how horrifying they can be and they're also intelligent and good at hiding.

 

[YouMadd?]

Can we even call them bed bugs at this point….

 

[King_Kamala61]

Brace yaselves...dey coming

 

[TEH]

Yall better keep that shyt over there on god

 

[Kasgoinjail]

Nasty ass French bringing it to dirty ass England

Yuck
God knows what people were getting up 2 during fashion week.