France to hold crisis meetings on bedbug 'scourge'

📆 10/4/2023 8:32 PM
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The French government said Tuesday it would host emergency meetings this week to examine surging numbers of reported bedbug cases, which are being increasingly seen as a major potential public health problem.

Bedbugs have in recent weeks gone from being a subject of potential derision to a contentious political issue in France, with aghast citizens reporting seeing the creatures in locations including trains, the Paris metro and cinemas.

"We want to inform on the actions undertaken and act in the service of travellers to reassure and protect," the ministry said. Health Minister Aurelien Rousseau insisted on France Inter radio there was no "general panic" over the issue. But the individual cases have not been confirmed by the authorities and RMC TV reported that a probe by Paris transport operator RATP had found no bedbugs on its services.

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France to hold crisis meetings on bedbug 'scourge'PARIS, France -- The French government said Tuesday it would host emergency meetings this week to examine surging numbers of reported bedbug cases, which are being increasingly seen as a major potential public health problem.
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