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Article is pretty thin and alarmist. They quote someone from a pest control company saying they deal with bedbugs every day, but that doesn't give any sense of the scale of the problem, only that this particular business is fully booked.

I think travelers still have a legit reason to be concerned about picking up bedbugs abroad since they probably don't have them at home. It's not like people sleep and bring clothes to other people's homes all the time, so the risk of picking them up is certainly enhanced when traveling. Don't think people need to lose their minds about traveling to Paris, but it's something to be aware of and informed about.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Bedbug infestations found in Paris during Fashion Week have prompted fears of travellers spreading the insects around, but exterminators in Canada say they're already enough of a problem here that people bringing them home from France isn't a concern.

Brown says the largest cities tend to have the biggest bedbug problems because there are more hosts in close proximity for the insects to move to.

After consulting with neighbours, Balandra, who is a member of tenant advocacy group ACORN, says he believes the whole building needs treatments or fumigation to deal with the persistent problem.

While bedbugs are not linked to any known medical issues — other than recent research indicating that they produce a large amount of histamine that could be harmful — they can cause significant mental health problems.

"Some folks have loss of sleep, high anxiety levels, increased stress, and those things lead to negative health outcomes."

For people whose landlords may turn a blind eye to bedbug infestations, Brown says their first course of action should be to declutter the sleeping area to better spot the bugs, which are about the size of ladybugs or apple seeds.

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