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Last i heard it was partly fake news. Some of the videos didn't even show bedbugs, but other insects, according to entomologists. Yes, France has bedbugs, but that is nothing new. I'm guessing every country has them, for instance in hotels.
I love in the south side of Glasgow. There has been a silent epidemic here for the last five years.
A combination of modern travel and migration practices, some pretty extreme poverty and a resistance to insecticides (or the banning of effective but quite damaging insecticides) is leading to a problem that is quite serious.
I mean they aren't lethal, but I can tell you that waking up in the night with a bunch of them scuttling across your skin isn't exactly fun.
And getting rid of them is intense. You have to basically nuke everything that you own. It's very expensive. And if you live in flats all of your neighbours need to do it too, otherwise they just come right back.
I don't doubt other cities have a problem, and I'm not sure "fake news" is a useful term here. Especially if you don't live in it.
I am very afraid of getting them when returning from a travel. Not all clothes can probably be washed hot enough. And it's not like you can wash a suit case or something. So, i appreciate the issues - they are bad -, but i only said that some of the videos don't appear to show bed bugs. I said it was partially fake news, because of that. I did not try to laugh away the issues with bed bugs, however, because of those videos the problem blew up and became world news, while basically nothing changed.
Obviously it probably isn't enough if you're in a small room where your suitcase is next to your bed, but for clothes you could try putting them in a vacuum bag (as in one of those plastic bags that you seal up and then suck all the air out with a vacuum)
I do it anyways because it means way more space in your suitcase but that would probably contain any bugs that are in your clothes
stop taking your clothes out of your suitcase as well. leave the suitcase zipped up in your hotel bathroom or bathtub.