Education minister says ‘cases are piling up’ and that ‘an immediate response is needed’

France has been forced to shut seven schools over growing concerns over an infestation of bedbugs, the education minister has said.

“Bedbugs were detected at various levels in … I believe 17 institutions, and currently as I speak to you, seven institutions are closed for this reason,” Gabriel Attal told France 5 television.

The French government has held a series of meetings this week to examine surging numbers of reported bedbug cases at a time when France is hosting the Rugby World Cup and preparing to host the Paris 2024 Olympics.

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    America just leaves our citizens with whatever infestations they have. I don’t even think they track most diseases anymore either at the CDC, with the exception of Covid mainly.

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        The CDC tracks the usual suspects of course but things like pests are ignored, and if I recall lyme disease wasn’t really paid attention to much either.

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      America has quite a network still for monitoring mosquito borne diseases like West Nile virus o believe. Mosquito control is like, a multi-million dollar industry there, if not multi-billion.