Bedbug crisis sparks political row in Paris as insect ‘scourge’ continues
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#2Why would you rent your home out with the risk of bedbugs?
Re: Bedbug crisis sparks political row in Paris as insect ‘scourge’ continues
#3Why would you rent your home out with the risk of bedbugs?
Money is used to purchase good and services.
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#4It mentions various downsides of bedbugs but doesn't mention blood borne diseases... Isn't that how it works, if it bit a guy with hepatitis then bit you, you will probably get it?
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#5Why would you rent your home out with the risk of bedbugs?
Risk and reward.
You can rent out a property and have it go perfectly fine, sometimes you encounter Degens who trash the place.
The trick is minimising your risk upfront to get a better result.
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#6Writing this article without mentioning AirBnB is quite the exercise in avoiding talking about root causes.
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#7I've just removed that AirBnB weekend in Paris from my things to do this year list :)
Re: Bedbug crisis sparks political row in Paris as insect ‘scourge’ continues
#8It mentions various downsides of bedbugs but doesn't mention blood borne diseases... Isn't that how it works, if it bit a guy with hepatitis then bit you, you will probably get it?
* for some values of "probably"
Re: Bedbug crisis sparks political row in Paris as insect ‘scourge’ continues
#9It mentions various downsides of bedbugs but doesn't mention blood borne diseases... Isn't that how it works, if it bit a guy with hepatitis then bit you, you will probably get it?
While bed bugs carry a lot of stigma, they are not disease carriers.
To date, no published study has demonstrated a causal relationship between bed bugs and infectious disease transmission in humans. Also, we present and propose to expand on previous hypotheses as to why bed bugs do not transmit human pathogens. Bed bugs may contain “neutralizing factors” that attenuate pathogen virulence and, thereby, decrease the ability of bed bugs to transmit infectious disease: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5007277/
Re: Bedbug crisis sparks political row in Paris as insect ‘scourge’ continues
#10I've just removed that AirBnB weekend in Paris from my things to do this year list :)
It’s not unique to Paris. It is a scourge in the UK as well, and an American friend told me that it was a problem in New York as well (I know, not a great source… I read NYT articles about that but they don’t immediately show up in my history).