Paris is not alone with its problem, as several big cities all the way back to ancient Rome have suffered from the problem.
Even the ancient Romans got itchy rashes from the bites of bedbugs, he says cancer history research. This was despite the fact that the Romans had a functioning drainage system and took care of their hygiene in the baths.
Now our contemporaries in Paris wrestled with the same problem.
With the Paris Olympics less than a year away, the French authorities want to make sure that the guests of the games are not bitten by bedbugs. The French authorities have started a pest war to exterminate bed bugs, says news agency Reuters.
Social media users have posted footage of bugs crawling around on high-speed trains and the Paris metro. Also, there have been plenty of online articles about bed bugs in movie theaters and even Charles de Gaulle airport.
The reports have now reached the highest management level.
– The state must urgently implement an action plan against this scourge as France prepares to host the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, Deputy Mayor of Paris Emmanuel Gregoire wrote the prime minister To Elisabeth Borne this week.
Also the Minister of Transport By Clement Beaune is said to have taken steps to speed up the war on cancer.
Humanity’s eternal problem
If the bed bug problem is viewed from a broader perspective than the Paris metro, then Parisians are definitely not alone.
Even a small search engine search reveals that these jointed blood-sucking parasites have caused shivers of disgust and extensive extermination campaigns uniformly in different parts of the world, such as in Britain, in Beijingin New York and in Spain.
Throughout history, bedbugs have been a problem even for Finnish sauna enthusiasts. Even to the extent that they have been quite valid material in culture as well. When Irwin Goodman sang about Ryysysanna, where there were “…fleas, bedbugs, lice, among the children linen heads”, hardly anyone took offense.
And why not, because According to the DNA samples bed bugs have been around for at least 115 million years. Humans have only been on earth for about 2.5 million years, being nursed by bedbugs.
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