When Malvika Sheth woke up in her Paris hotel room last week with itchy feet and swollen calves, she believed it was just her skeeter syndrome acting up again: her body normally overreacts and bulges after she’s bitten by mosquitos. But then she checked TikTok.
There, the Los Angeles-based influencer learned that the City of Lights has been hit by a bedbug outbreak that just happened to correspond with Paris fashion week. Thousands of fashion workers and influencers had potentially been exposed to the blood-feasting insect.
