Death due to… bedbugs

Experts say bedbugs do not pose a health threat. But there is a nuance: a British couple died in a hotel after the neighboring room was disinfected from blood-sucking insects.

It all happened on August 25, 2018, at the Steigenberger Aqua Magic hotel in the Egyptian resort of Hurghada on the Red Sea. A British couple on holiday died there within a few hours of each other. The investigation found no problems with the air conditioning or other equipment in the hotel room, a prosecutor said today.

As it turned out, the couple died from poisoning after the next room was treated with Lambda to kill bed bugs, reports the British agency PA Media. In some countries, Lambda is diluted with a substance called dichloromethane, which causes the body to metabolize or absorb carbon monoxide.

How tells CNN Greece, the treated room was connected to the room where the British couple was staying with a door that was sealed with masking tape. Returning to the hotel in the evening, the couple went to bed, but the next day their daughter Kelly was in for a shock. She found 69-year-old John Cooper dead in the room and 63-year-old Susan in poor condition – she died a few hours later in hospital.

Kelly Ormerod called the last few years “the most traumatic and emotional time” since her parents’ deaths. In a conversation with reporters, she said after the publication of the results of the investigation into the circumstances of the tragic incident:

“To this day our family is trying to understand what happened. This should never have been allowed to happen. The last few years have been the most traumatic and emotional time for all of us involved. Nothing can compensate for the pain and loss we have felt since that day.”

Dr James Adeley, senior coroner for the English county of Lancashire, ruled that the death was caused by carbon monoxide poisoning as a result of inhalation of fumes from the spraying of a pesticide containing dichloromethane, the newspaper reported.

Previously our publication reportedthat bed bugs are already in Greece, and also, after Great Britain and France, got there to South Korea.

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