2023-10-03 08:15:09
“What concerns me is that people do not get cheated with boxes that make them pay 2,000 or 3,000 euros” to rid them of these bedbugs, said the Minister of Health.
The Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau considered this Tuesday that there was “no general panic” to be had in the face of bedbugs, considered “a scourge” by several political leaders and whose presence has been reported in several places bringing together the public.
“I think that this is not a reason for general panic,” assured the minister interviewed on France Inter, recognizing however that “when you have bedbugs, it’s hell.”
“Abuse”
The presence of bedbugs has been reported in recent weeks in cinemas, TGV trains, the Paris metro and the waiting area at Roissy airport. But not all of these cases are proven.
“What concerns me is that people do not get cheated with boxes that make them pay 2,000 or 3,000 euros” to rid them of these bedbugs, said Aurélien Rousseau who denounced “abuses”. The Minister of Health hopes that the government can work “to limit these prices” and recalls the existence of 450 to 480 “approved professionals”.
“Nothing to do with racism”
He also recalled that the presence of bedbugs had “nothing to do with immigration”, in reference to a question deemed “racist” by the LFI and Renaissance deputies of the journalist Pascal Praud recently asking on CNews if the resurgence of bedbugs could be linked to migrants.
Disappeared from daily life in the 1950s, these insects have made a comeback over the past thirty years in many developed countries thanks to increasingly nomadic lifestyles and consumption favoring second-hand purchases. and increasing resistance to insecticides.
The size of an apple seed, they feed at night, mainly on human blood, most often hide in mattresses or box springs and are transported in clothing and luggage. To eliminate them, careful cleaning of the infested area is essential and the use of a specialized pest control service is often necessary.
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