The latest challenge for organizers of the 2024 Summer Games in Paris? An infestation of bedbugs.
The Olympic rings are set up on Trocadero plaza that overlooks the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Sept. 14, 2017. The tiny blood-sucking insects are suddenly everywhere in the City of Light, seen in videos crawling on the seats of the Paris metro, showing up on trains and airports, and nesting in mattresses.
A meme already viewed some 250,000 times on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, depicts giant bedbugs swarming terrified visitors at what appears to be a Paris train station and features the Paris 2024 logo. "There is no reason for general panic. We are not invaded by bedbugs," France's health minister, Aurélien Rousseau, said during an interview on French public radio channel France Inter Tuesday morning, ABC News reported.
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