He also sent a letter to Borne calling for an 'action plan' to deal with the insects, Reuters reported. Grégoire announced that he had asked Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne to organize a conference on the battle against bedbugs, calling it a public health issue. Sports The IOC says it will not invite Russia and Belarus to the 2024 Olympics in ParisĮarlier this year, the French government agency ANSES said in a report that 11% of French households had bedbugs between 20, and the infestations weren't correlated to wealth.Ī jump in travel and bedbugs' growing resistance to insecticides are among the primary reasons driving a spike in infestations, the agency noted.
