Kids attending a camp at a Shinagawa Ward's recreation facility in Nikko were forced to stayed in a room infested with bedbugs. A teacher saw the bugs and told the children to sleep with the lights on because there were no other rooms available and bedbugs tend not to come out when there is light. However, when another teacher checked later, they got angry and turned off the lights. As a result, the children were unable to sleep because of the bugs.
One parent, after hearing about this from their child, checked for bedbugs in their belongings and found none, but a friend’s backpack did have bedbugs. Many parents complained, and the school apologized.
Bedbugs are bugs that bite and cause itchy skin and are hard to get rid of. They dislike light, so keeping lights on can deter them.
The school district said they found bedbugs in the camp after the incident and canceled future bookings until August 8th. They mentioned that 19 schools used the camp that year, with one report of bedbugs in a student’s luggage. The camp has 42 rooms, but bedbugs were only found in two. The district could not confirm the teacher’s claim that no other rooms were available at the time.
EDIT: The original article starts out as follows. I'm wondering if correlating number of overseas travelers with bed bug infestation as Shinagawa Ward's recreation facility in Nikko is accurate. Wondering how many overseas travelers are actually staying there to increase number of bed bugs.
近年、海外からの渡航者の増加とともに、国内でもトコジラミによる被害が広がっている。
Simple translation:
With the increase in travelers from overseas, bed bug infestations are spreading
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