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As Paris Olympics approach, French authorities launch efforts to eradicate bedbugs
Fox News ^ | September 29, 2023

Posted on 09/29/2023 4:09:51 PM PDT by george76

Government is urged to implement action plan to address this issue before the 2024 Olympics

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With the Paris Olympics less than a year away, French authorities want to make sure the bedbugs don't bite during the games and have started a drive to exterminate the pests.

Social media users have been publishing footage of the insects crawling around in high-speed trains and the Paris metro, alongside a rash of online articles about bedbugs in cinemas and even Charles de Gaulle airport.

The reports have reached the highest levels of government.

"The state urgently needs to put an action plan in place against this scourge as France is preparing to welcome the Olympic and Paralympic games in 2024," the capital's deputy mayor, Emmanuel Gregoire, said in a letter to Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne this week.

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Everyone is panicking," pest control store manager Sacha Krief said. "People can really get depressed, even paranoid over it."

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Sports
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; bedbug; bedbugs; cinemas; die; diversity; esg; france; frenchtrains; highspeed; highspeedrail; highspeedtrains; infested; multiculturalism; paris; pariscinemas; trains
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1 posted on 09/29/2023 4:09:51 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

That is quite a problem.


2 posted on 09/29/2023 4:12:39 PM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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To: george76

ze bed bugs, zay are not to your liking...?


3 posted on 09/29/2023 4:14:10 PM PDT by fhayek
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No, no. They’re migrants. You can’t touch them.


4 posted on 09/29/2023 4:15:08 PM PDT by moonhawk (Unleash the MAGAhideen!)
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third world country problem ...


5 posted on 09/29/2023 4:15:46 PM PDT by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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Under normal circumstances, they love their bedbugs.

Dang tourists ruin everything!!!


6 posted on 09/29/2023 4:18:04 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: george76

Onew word: DDT.


7 posted on 09/29/2023 4:20:41 PM PDT by ganeemead ( )
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To: LegendHasIt
Under normal circumstances, they love their bedbugs.


8 posted on 09/29/2023 4:20:44 PM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: george76

Eat them?


9 posted on 09/29/2023 4:21:47 PM PDT by KittyKares
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10 posted on 09/29/2023 4:25:35 PM PDT by Nateman (If Mohammad was not the Anti Christ Mad Moe definitely comes in as a Strong second..)
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To: george76

How ironic that the Olympics celebrate NATIONALISM and your COUNTRY’S FLAG, at a time when Globalists want to run everything.


11 posted on 09/29/2023 4:28:37 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: george76

Multiculturalism


12 posted on 09/29/2023 4:30:31 PM PDT by inchworm (al )
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To: george76

DDT works wonders on bed bugs.


13 posted on 09/29/2023 5:11:57 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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But first they might want to eradicate (deport) military age moslem males. And getting rid of Gypsy pickpockets might be a good idea too.


14 posted on 09/29/2023 5:14:50 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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Mussies?


15 posted on 09/29/2023 5:15:52 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~Definition Of A Business Jet: A Mailing Tube For Executives ~)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

True, but you need an expert extermination program too. Don’t rely on yourself for this one. You will only end up making it more difficult for the experts.


16 posted on 09/29/2023 5:23:41 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: george76
The newest and latest bedbug product is Aprehend.

It is a fungus that kills bedbugs and is non toxic to humans and pets.

Temperature for storage and use needs to be below 80 degrees F.

It has been is use in the US since 2020, but the company I worked for would not use it and instead stole the method name “No Prep”.

17 posted on 09/29/2023 6:44:45 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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The last two Olympics I watched zero of them. Paris will be the same. The games like most spectator sports are dead to me now.


18 posted on 09/29/2023 7:49:26 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

They had bedbugs entirely wi9ped out of the south 48 by the mid fifties and that was too good for them, as was having typhus and malaria all but wiped off the planet. DDT was a legitimate candidate for greatest thing the white man ever invented...


19 posted on 09/29/2023 8:34:15 PM PDT by ganeemead ( )
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Have to remember that.

My elderly mom just had an infestation. We had to call in a special exterminator from another state.

She had a nurse that also sat for another elderly couple...and they had them as well. We don’t know if the nurse was carrying them in from her abode.

Awful creatures. They are particularly bad for causing anemia.


20 posted on 09/29/2023 10:32:42 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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