Britain is 'not ready' for an 侵略 of bed bugs, 警告するs 主要な 災害 専門家 as UK 通勤（学）者s 避ける sitting on trains まっただ中に 恐れるs of possible insect influx from フラン

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Britain is not 用意が出来ている for an 侵略 of bed bugs, a 主要な 災害 専門家 has 警告するd.?

Professor Lucy Easthope, who has worked on the 返答 to 全世界の events 含むing the 9/11 and 7/7 attacks, the Grenfell Tower 解雇する／砲火／射撃 and?Covid-19, put out the stark 警告 まっただ中に growing 恐れるs that フラン's bed bug 危機 could 攻撃する，衝突する the UK.

認識／意識性 to the problem was first raised last week as it 現れるd Parisians were experiencing a 'living hell' fighting off a 疫病／悩ます of the insects that 料金d on the 血 of animals and humans.?

With 通勤（学）者s already 避けるing seats on public 輸送（する） まっただ中に 恐れるs that the French 突発／発生 could spread to the UK, Professor Easthope 警告するd on X, 以前は Twitter: 'I 約束 you this… Britain is not ready for an 侵略 of bed bugs.'?

In a second tweet, the Professor in Practice of 危険 and Hazard at the University of Durham 明らかにする／漏らすd how she once got caught up in a bed bug 突発／発生 in Knoxville,?Tennessee, 追加するing: 'The lengths you have to go to get rid of them is arduous. 溝へはまらせる／不時着するing your bed is not enough.'

Britain is not 用意が出来ている for an 侵略 of bed bugs, 主要な 災害 専門家 Professor Lucy Easthope (pictured) has 警告するd

Britons have been 株ing several ビデオs of 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd bed bugs on social マスコミ as 恐れるs grow?

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Professor Lucy Easthope, who has worked on the 返答 to 全世界の events 含むing the 9/11 and 7/7 attacks, the Grenfell Tower 解雇する／砲火／射撃 and the Covid-19 pandemic, put out the stark 警告 まっただ中に 恐れるs of a bed bug 侵略 from フラン

It 現れるd yesterday that the bed bug 疫病／悩ます in フラン has seen families in Marseille 捨てる their infested mattresses out into the streets in a desperate 試みる／企てる to rid themselves of the pests.?

Professor Easthope's comments come after?London 市長 Sadiq 旅宿泊所?said the 問題／発行する was a 'real source of 関心' and that he had 接触するd 公式の／役人s in Paris after the French 資本／首都 became 圧倒するd by an 突発／発生 with the insects 報告（する）／憶測d in schools, trains, hospitals and cinemas.

Over the last few days in Britain, Tube 乗客s have 辞退するd to sit on seats, and?the?地元の 当局 in Luton said it had received an 'alarming number' of calls about the insects. どこかよそで, a bed bug was 恐らく spotted on a bus in Manchester on Monday.?

There are also worries over an 突発／発生, not least because rugby fans are travelling to and from フラン for the World Cup - with England playing?Fiji?in the ４半期/4分の1-final in Marseille on Sunday.??

関心s have grown over an infestation in?London?after a ビデオ went viral over the 週末 of what was （人命などを）奪う，主張するd to be a bed bug on a person's 脚 on the Victoria line.

But some 専門家s have 論争d whether the creature is indeed a bed bug, with one 説 it was not 'flat enough' and another 説 that the clip 'looks wrong.'?

Another 通勤（学）者 株d a ビデオ on TikTok?of what they （人命などを）奪う，主張するd was a bed bug on a Central line train in west London - but, again, this has not been 立証するd by 専門家s.

A different 乗客 地位，任命するd a ビデオ from the Northern line, 説 they would not sit 負かす／撃墜する because they saw what they thought were bed bug eggs on the seat 構成要素.??

輸送（する） for London (TfL) is 殺菌するing seats daily after ビデオs 循環させるd on social マスコミ showing train seats on the Paris Metro はうing with the 血-sucking bugs, fuelling 関心s that they will still be a problem when the city hosts the Olympics.

However, Richard 塀で囲む, from the University of Bris tol's School of 生物学の Sciences, said the insect in the Victoria line ビデオ was not 'flat enough' to be a bed bug.

He told Metro.co.uk: 'I'm also pretty 確信して that it's not a tick either (too big). It's 価値（がある） 公式文書，認めるing that bed bugs are 大部分は nocturnal.'

Some 通勤（学）者s have taken to TikTok to say they are 関心d about sitting on Tube seat

And Adam Juson from the pest 支配（する）／統制する company Merlin 環境の said the 明らかな bed bug did not appear to be real.

He told the Daily Telegraph: 'It does look sort of like a bed bug but the ビデオ is not really good enough to ID from. The bug is not 動きやすい so this could be a 残余 from a 治療 or one that has got caught on the person's 着せる／賦与するs.

'We have 設立する bed bugs on trains in the past so it's not beyond the bounds of 可能性 but this looks wrong.'

But David Cain, molecular biologist and 創立者 of Bed Bugs Ltd, told Sky News: 'There's been a lot of attention, people worrying about bed bugs coming across from フラン. But the reality is we already have a large enough problem in the UK.

'Just yesterday there were ビデオs of people showing bed bugs はうing on people on the Tube system in London. So the thing that 誘発するd all the 関心 in Paris is already happening in London.'

Mr Cain 追加するd: 'Because the problem has 爆発するd so 速く over the last １０年間 - they're now in public spaces, cinemas, doctor's 外科s, hospitals, all over the place, you then have to check your own bed.

'The reality is we spend an 普通の／平均（する） of 180 hours a month sleeping in our beds. So we really should give them the 尊敬（する）・点 of 30 minutes once a month to clean them.'

Mr 旅宿泊所 said he was 関心d, but TfL was doing everything it could to 確実にする the bed bug infestation in フラン does not spread to public 輸送（する） in London.

He told PoliticsJOE: 'This is a real source of 関心, 権利? People are worried about these bugs in Paris 原因（となる）ing a problem in London.?

A bed bug was also 恐らく spotted on a bus in Manchester に引き続いて an 突発／発生 in Paris

'I was in 接触する with TfL last week and this 週末. We're taking steps to make sure we don't have those problems in London, in relation to 正規の／正選手 きれいにする of not just the Tubes and our buses, but talking to the Eurostar 同様に.

'TfL have one of the best 政権s to clean our 資産s on a nightly basis. We're speaking to our friends in Paris to see if there are any lessons to be learned. For a variety of 推論する／理由s we don't think those 問題／発行するs will arise in London - but no complacency from TfL.'

In a separate interview with ITV News, he said that TfL was 行為／行うing 'world-主要な' きれいにする and 警告するd Brits to stay 'vigilant'.?

'The good news is there is no 証拠 of those 問題／発行するs in London,' he 追加するd. 'There is no complacency at all - lots of preventative 対策.?

'I want to 安心させる everybody public 輸送（する） is 安全な in London but we have to keep on 存在 vigilant to make sure all steps that can be taken are taken to make sure we're not seeing in London what we are seeing in フラン.'?

In Manchester, a 乗客 （人命などを）奪う，主張するd to have seen a bedbug on the 59 bus from Piccadilly Gardens to Oldham Mumps.

They tweeted First Bus to say: 'Your 59 to Oldham Mumps has bedbugs. I 示唆する you do something about this quickly lol.'

First Bus 答える／応じるd, 説: 'This is really 関心ing to see, and we do apologise for this.' It 追加するd that it would 報告（する）／憶測 the 出来事/事件 to the 倉庫・駅 管理／経営 team.

どこかよそで, Luton 会議's website 警告するd 居住（者）s it 'does not have limitless 資源s' to 取り組む the 'obnoxious pest', 追加するing 扱う／治療するing 所有物／資産／財産s was 'not 解放する／自由な'.

It said: 'The 国家の bed bug problem has not 行方不明になるd Luton. The Pest 支配（する）／統制する Service is 現在／一般に receiving an alarming number of bed bug 職業s on a 週刊誌 basis.'

Homeowners wh o arrange a visit from an exterminator need to （土地などの）細長い一片 beds 完全に and put everything 'into 調印（する）d 貯蔵所 liners and placed in the bath for 貯蔵'.

Wardrobes, drawers and bookcases must also be emptied and the contents 蓄える／店d securely in the same way. Even pictures and posters need to be 'off the 塀で囲むs and 利用できる for 査察' and furniture pulled away from 塀で囲むs.

People and pets must 避難させる their homes while they are sprayed with insecticide, which 'can be a 非常に長い 過程'.

The 会議, which has not 解放（する）d 人物／姿／数字s about the number of 報告（する）／憶測s received, 追加するd: 'You should be aware that no insecticides are 完全に 安全な and it is for this 推論する／理由 that the 会議 推定する／予想する 十分な 協調 from you.'

一方／合間 Dee Patel, an entomologist, told BBC Three 郡s 無線で通信する that lavender deterred bed bugs. He 追加するd: 'Lavender oil masks their scent pattern and they can't 対処する with it.'

He also advised washing linen at 最高気温s, vacuuming often and 氷点の sheets.

Across the Channel, フラン's 輸送（する） 大臣 Clement Beaune has gathered 輸送（する） 操作者s to discuss ways in which to better 保護する 通勤（学）者s.

Last week, Eurostar said it will 殺菌する its trains ? of which 16 a day run from Paris to London ? at the first 調印する of bed bugs.

A Eurostar 広報担当者 said: 'The safety and wellbeing of our 顧客s is always our number one 優先, and the presence of insects such as bed bugs on our trains is 極端に rare.?

'The 織物 surfaces on all of our trains are cleaned 完全に on a 正規の／正選手 basis. This 伴う／関わるs hot-water 注射 and extraction きれいにする, which has proven 高度に 効果的な in 除去するing bugs.

'Any 報告（する）／憶測s on hygiene 事柄s are taken very 本気で, and our きれいにする teams, in 新規加入 to the usual きれいにする, will also 殺菌する a train on request or as soon as there is the slightest 疑問.'

Also last week Mathilde Panot, an MP and leader of the Left-wing フラン Unbowed party, took a 実験（する） tube 十分な of dead bed bugs into French 議会 to raise her 関心s about the 突発／発生.

Ms Panot said that bed bugs were 'proliferating in all daily living spaces: Hospitals, schools, workplaces, 退職 homes, 刑務所，拘置所s, trains and even cinema theatres'.

She 追加するd: 'They are making the lives of millions of our fellow 国民s a living hell.'

TfL has 確認するd that it is 監視するing trains and buses for any 指示，表示する物 that the infestation could have reached the UK.

A TfL 広報担当者 said: 'We are continuing to closely 監視する our 網状組織 but are not aware of any 突発／発生s in London.?

'We are continuing to 器具／実施する our rigorous and 徹底的な きれいにする 対策 that have been proven to keep both the 内部の and exterior of our trains clean.?

'We are committed to 供給するing a clean and 安全な 環境 on our bus, Tube and rail service for our 顧客s and staff, and we would like to 安心させる our 顧客s that we continue to 持続する our already high 基準s of cleanliness, so our staff and 顧客s can use the 網状組織 安全に and with 信用／信任.'

Data 解放（する）d by pest-支配（する）／統制する company Rentokil in September showed that from 2022 to 2023, there was a 65 per cent 増加する in bed bug infes tations.

A pest 支配（する）／統制する 専門家技術者 sprays an insecticide under a mattress in Paris last Wednesday

A bed bug is seen on a glove of a biocide 専門家技術者 from Hygiene 賞与金 in Paris last month

製品s used to eradicate bed bugs at the Hygiene 賞与金 pest 支配（する）／統制する shop in Paris

Bed bugs, which are about the size of an apple pip, 料金d on animal 血 and their bites can 原因（となる） swelling and itching but rarely lead to 複雑化s. 同様に as beds, they can also be 設立する on 着せる／賦与するing and furniture.

Millennium Hotels and 訴える手段／行楽地s, which operates 18 hotels in the UK, has been asking new guests whether they have travelled from フラン, によれば staff at one of its London hotels.

And staff at the five-星／主役にする Renaissance Hotel at St Pancras 駅／配置する, the London Eurostar terminus, said no bedbugs have been （悪事，秘密などを）発見するd there but staff have received training during the last fortnight on how to 位置／汚点／見つけ出す the pests.

空気／公表する フラン also said if 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd bedbugs are 報告（する）／憶測d on board one of its flights 'the 航空機 would be grounded and a specialist team would すぐに be 派遣（する）d to 確認する or 支配する out the presence of these insects'.

Bed bugs are seen in the seams of a sofa bed in L'Hay-les-Roses 近づく Paris on September 29

空気／公表する フラン said it will ground any 航空機 if bedbugs are （悪事，秘密などを）発見するd on board (とじ込み／提出する picture)

Eurostar said its trains are to be 殺菌するd if there is the 'slightest 疑問' of infestation

一方／合間 専門家s 警告するd over the 週末 that failing to 取り組む Britain's growing bedbug problem will 先触れ（する） a return of Victorian-時代 infestations.

Professor James Logan, an insect 専門家 at the London School of Hygiene and 熱帯の 薬／医学 and 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of 研究 会社／堅い Arctech 革新, told the Mail on Sunday: 'The insecticides we've used for １０年間s to fight these bugs can't always be relied on any more.

'Bedbugs in many places have 発展させるd to resist these 有毒な 化学製品s.'

He 追加するd: 'The trick is to catch them 早期に before they begin laying eggs. We should be 器具／実施するing more 罠（にかける）s and 警報 systems to 取り組む the problem.

'But we also need to develop new insecticides to 避ける infestations becoming commonplace again.'

In フラン, 関心s over the 危機 have led to French 公式の／役人s 持つ／拘留するing 危機 会談 about the 増加する in bed bugs, with 大臣s in Emmanuel Macron's 政府 約束ing to '速く bring answers' for the public.

The 副 市長 of Paris, Emmanuel Gregoire, last week （人命などを）奪う，主張するd that 'no one is 安全な' from the '天罰（を下す）' of bedbugs.

The British Pest 支配（する）／統制する 協会 said there were now 概略で 12,000 call-outs 関係のある to the 問題／発行する every year.

The sale of second-手渡す furniture, on 場所／位置s such as Facebook and eBay, is also 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd to be 悪化させるing the problem.

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