2023-10-06 06:53:00
Returning from Fashion Week in Paris, several American influencers fear a new invasion of bedbugs in the United States like the one that hit New York in the 2000s.
While Paris Fashion Week ended at the beginning of October, one fear still hangs over the many American guests present in the capital to attend the shows: bedbugs.
Back in Los Angeles, where she works, fashion influencer Malvika Sheth told the Guardian having spent her day deep cleaning all the clothes she wore in Paris.
“Even if I only wore them for 10 minutes, they will go in the wash. I don’t think regarding freezing or burning them, because these clothes are quite expensive. I will wash them twice and hope that nothing has followed me so far,” she says.
Same story for Alfredo Mineo, an American writer who lives in Paris. “We’re afraid of ‘the flea’. There are mattresses lined up in my street with little signs telling people not to touch them. Now I’m going to have to live with Ratatouille and ‘the flea’,” says he to the Guardian.
At the beginning of the 2000s, New York also experienced an infestation of bedbugs in hotels, public places, Airbnb, housing, etc. As a result, in 2010, more than 24,000 reports were recorded in the city.
At the height of the crisis, in July 2010, the town hall committed $500,000 to get rid of its pests. At the same time, the State of New York has put pressure on landlords who have been forced to warn potential tenants of the presence of insects in their accommodation in the last 12 months.
New Yorkers were also banned from leaving their mattresses in the street without wrapping them in plastic film under penalty of a $100 fine. Thanks to these announcements, the city has managed to considerably reduce the presence of bedbugs. But it is not uncommon for these small insects to occasionally return to old buildings and hotels in the “Big Apple”.
For the moment, the New York Department of Health and Hygiene assures in a press release, relayed by the Guardian, that it is still “too early” to say whether the invasion of bedbugs in Paris has had an impact or not in the United States.
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