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Bedbugs on public transport spreading

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Britain's biggest pest control company, Rentokil, has reported a 40 per cent increase in the number of transport-related call-outs in the past year Photo: REUTERS


Britain's biggest pest control company, Rentokil, has reported a 40 per cent increase in the number of transport-related call-outs in the past year.
It says more than two thirds of infestations on public and private transport involved bedbugs.
The rest were likely to be biting insects such as fleas from cats and dogs.
Bedbugs are commonly found in the creases of seats and seat-belt fastenings on buses, trains and aircraft.
They thrive in small spaces and can cause anaemia if they feed on a host's blood for a long time. Their bites are rarely severe however.
Savvas Othon, technical director at Rentokil, said: "The short turnaround times for planes and other forms of transport means they are sometimes not inspected as thoroughly as they used to be. What should happen is a good vacuum around the back of seats and in the creases of seats. Any small gap is ideal for a bedbug, which can go for quite some time without a meal."
He added: "Bedbug infestations will continue to rise. Delays at airports don't help as people sit in airport terminals, take things out of their bags and the bedbug jumps out and goes in search of another source of blood."
The biggest increases in call-outs for Rentokil in the past year have involved shipping (up 59 per cent), cars (up 51 per cent), airlines (up 24 per cent) and rail (up 9 per cent).
David Cain, managing director of Bed-Bugs.co.uk, a dedicated bedbug obliteration service, said: "The number one reason for the spread of bedbugs is the lack of public awareness. People simply do not know how to detect them in the way they would have done in the 1950s and 1960s.
"They are a problem on buses, trains and subway systems, and on cruise ships too – any form of transport where there is a high turnover, really. Recently, on an overground train in south London, I pulled at the parting of the upholstery and found at least four months of dirt and debris."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/2622565/Bedbugs-on-public-transport-spreading.html
 
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