NEW YORK CITY Sleep tight, New York City and don't let the growing swarms of bedbugs bite. <\/p>\n
Bedbug complaints in the city quietly creeped up to the highest monthly level since October 2019, according to city data. <\/p>\n
The post-COVID record 540 complaints in August the last month with updated data came just before bedbug bug outs exploded on social media over infestation fears in Paris. <\/p>\n
\"It's not always your fault, and we all now collectively share that nightmare,\" she said. <\/p>\n
The return of bedbug fears in New York City is in many ways a throwback to pre-coronavirus pandemic days. <\/p>\n
Complaints about bedbugs handled by the city's Housing Preservation & Development department cratered in April 2020 as COVID-19 ground life to a halt, data shows. <\/p>\n
They rebounded by September that year and fit back into a pattern of steady decline going since at least 2014, according to data. <\/p>\n
By the time 2022 rolled around, New York City was no longer in the top 10 of Orkin's top cities for bedbugs. <\/p>\n
\"Even the bed bugs left New York City in 2021,\" stated a Patch story from the time. <\/p>\n
But bedbugs didn't stay away long. <\/p>\n
Complaints crawled up in 2022 before exploding this year, data shows. The Big Apple now ranks second on Orkin's \"Top 50 Bed Bug Cities\" list for 2023. <\/p>\n
New York City's brief bedbug lull now looks more like a blip than anything else amid what one 2022 study deemed the pest's \"global resurgence.\" <\/p>\n
The recent Paris bedbug panic was fueled by viral videos of tiny bugs on trains. French officials said cases from public transit were unfounded, but a government study found roughly one household in 10 was infested with bedbugs between 2017 and 2022 in France, the Associated Press reported. <\/p>\n
Some New Yorkers in recent weeks have posted TikTok videos urging people who visit Paris to check for bedbugs. <\/p>\n
But at least TikTok user blasted those fears, comparing it to anti-Asian attacks from the early days of COVID-19. <\/p>\n
\"Just because someone was in Paris doesn't mean they have bedbugs,\" the user said in a video that garnered 69,000 \"likes.\" <\/p>\n
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