For several weeks now, bed bugs have been pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago. Hoteliers from the Pontevedra municipality of Caldas have targeted the pilgrims’ backpacks y al collective transport as the main form of transmission of these insects.
Thus, the manager of the Albor hostel, Yolanda Rey, explains to Europa Press that this year the pilgrims are doing more use of the backpack transport serviceso if there is a backpack that contains them, when they all go together, “this contagion automatically occurs.”
Next, he pointed out that bed bugs “cannot be eradicated”, but that “they must be controlled.” In this way, when a pilgrim tells him that he saw a bedbug, he uses ozone, he removes all the textile elements where they can hide and uses an insecticide, in addition, This house has fallen into disrepair until the problem is over.
Another of the Caldas hoteliers, the owner of the La Posada Doña Urraca hostel, Jesús Fariña, has agreed with Rey’s words and has stated that bedbugs on the Camino “there have always been” and has stressed that although this year “it was more pronounced “It’s not a plague.”
Regarding the pilgrims, Fariña has indicated that they believe that they must have more awareness about where they leave their backpacks throughout its journey.