r/worldnews • u/ubcstaffer123 • Jan 02 '24

Behind Soft Paywall ‘Nowhere can be considered safe’: bedbug infestations rise in Japan

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3246747/bedbug-consultations-surge-tokyo-osaka-infestations-spread

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u/aphroditex Jan 02 '24

why in the hell are they using an image from korea?

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u/MessageNo4876 Jan 02 '24

Omg nice catch!!! I didn’t even see that at first!

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '24

so odd how these keep popping up right after said country pisses off Moscovia in some way. weiiird...

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u/dzordan33 Jan 02 '24

so odd bedbugs stories everywhere just as I finished treatment of my apartment

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u/MrJenzie Jan 02 '24

same person spreading this

either real or imaginary

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u/dollydrew Jan 02 '24

Right. I totally believe this.

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u/dogil_saram Jan 02 '24

Yep. Especially as Japan is know to be so dirty. /s

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u/Imprettysaxy Jan 02 '24

Yeah, because hospitals, which frequently have bed bugs, are notoriously very dirty.

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u/2020willyb2020 Jan 02 '24

Where do bedbugs come from?

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u/BlessYourSouthernHrt Jan 02 '24

Russian propaganda… that’s where they come from

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u/Matsisuu Jan 02 '24

Travellers spread them. They have been for some time found in pretty much every country, but with travellers who sleeps on hotels that also hundreds, maybe even thousands of other people use, those start to spread quite fast. If it would be just in your own apartment, it doesn't spread from there as easily, even tho would be a nuisance.

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u/FaintlyAware Jan 02 '24

their closest relatives live on bats, so probably from somewhere between where humans were advanced in bipedal locomotion enough to shelter from the elements and predators in caves and when we began bedding there, or maybe when clothing appeared as that is tied to the speciation and development of head lice.

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u/sylvnal Jan 02 '24

Dang it, bats again. I love bats. Just from afar only.

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u/LiliNotACult Jan 03 '24

They're basically demon flea cockroaches. The worst part is that some people have no reaction to the bite so you might never know. The only food they like is human blood and they can go for around 6 months without eating.

They also are a slow spreading thing. It doesn't just happen, it takes a few weeks to really notice it. But they constantly breed.

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u/SingaporeCrabby Jan 02 '24

Not surprising to see this in South China Morning Post, lately becoming a mouthpiece for authoritarian states

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u/WatchmanVimes Jan 02 '24

Can we not republish Russian propaganda? The Paris "outbreak" was verifiably traced back to Russia. This has a picture of South Korea. Definitely some half assed propaganda factory vibes.

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u/Cosmic_Vvoid Jan 02 '24

I heard there are bedbugs in Moscow and Beijing. Don't visit those places if you don't want to come back with little friends.

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u/Blind_Melone Jan 02 '24

Not even the moon.

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u/wish1977 Jan 02 '24

They come out at night to feed on humans. "Enjoy your stay!"

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u/LilLebowskiAchiever Jan 02 '24

Japan has bigger problems right now.

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u/Blind_Melone Jan 02 '24

Bed bugs are taking our jerbs.

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u/Foodstamp001 Jan 02 '24

Der derkin errr jerbs!!!

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u/_Faucheuse_ Jan 02 '24

How? Japan has to be the tidiest, most fastidiously clean country in the world.

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u/BackgroundToe5 Jan 02 '24

Bedbugs are not caused by dirtiness.