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NEW YORK CITY Sleep tight, New York City and don't let the growing swarms of bedbugs bite.
Bedbug complaints in the city quietly creeped up to the highest monthly level since October 2019, according to city data.
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.
"It's not always your fault, and we all now collectively share that nightmare," she said.
The return of bedbug fears in New York City is in many ways a throwback to pre-coronavirus pandemic days.
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.
They rebounded by September that year and fit back into a pattern of steady decline going since at least 2014, according to data.
By the time 2022 rolled around, New York City was no longer in the top 10 of Orkin's top cities for bedbugs.
"Even the bed bugs left New York City in 2021," stated a Patch story from the time.
But bedbugs didn't stay away long.
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.
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."
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.
Some New Yorkers in recent weeks have posted TikTok videos urging people who visit Paris to check for bedbugs.
But at least TikTok user blasted those fears, comparing it to anti-Asian attacks from the early days of COVID-19.
"Just because someone was in Paris doesn't mean they have bedbugs," the user said in a video that garnered 69,000 "likes."
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NYC Bedbug Complaints Creep Up To Years-Long High, Data Shows
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