Paris launches emergency bed bugs hotline
(The Guardian France)

New campaign includes advice on how to prevent and treat an infestation, and a number to call for expert helpThe French government launched a campaign Thursday, complete with an emergency number, to combat an influx of unwelcome visitors that have left Parisians in despair: bedbugs that have settled in homes and hotels to feed, uninvited, on human blood.After disappearing from France in the 1950s, the insects have made a resurgence, according to the ministry of housing, which cited international travel and growing resistance to insecticide as the main causes. Continue reading...