Disgusted travellers have taken to social media to share videos of bedbugs crawling over train seats with one clip alone attracting 3.8 million views, as authorities try to combat the infestation ahead of the Olympics in the country’s capital in less than a year.
France is grappling a bedbug problem with the insects found on public transport, in hotels, and cinemas. Picture: CNN Bedbugs, which had largely disappeared from daily life by the 1950s, have made a resurgence in recent years, mostly due to high population densities and more mass transit. The company told the publication on Monday that “each sighting is taken into account and is subject to a treatment,” adding that “these last few days, there have been no proven cases of bedbugs recorded in our equipment”.pic.twitter.com/JA9q1Caee0RATP said a report was made on Wednesday last week but after an assessment “no presence of bedbugs was recorded on the train”.
International travel and increasing resistance to insecticides are to blame for the critters’ resurgence, according to the website.