Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 6:47 pm Post subject: How did the bed bugs get on the train?
More and more people kept complaining to the railroad authority that they got bitten by bed bugs while taking a train through Isaan.
When finally the complaints got so many that it wasn't possible anymore to say: "You must have been imagining that!" they had a look at the carriages. Indeed the seats and cushions were badly infested. And the wooden planks were full of eggs, the bugs were breeding there. Now somebody to blame had to be found.
Well, only somebody who rides those trains could have taken the bugs there, was the conclusion. And as backpackers don't spend much money in Thailand anyway the way they travel, most convenient was to put the blame on them. So the Transport Minister Santi Prompat said yesterday the bugs may have jumped onto travellers' backpacks during forest treks and then found new homes in the cosy seats of the trains. He said the velvet-covered seats and cool temperatures contributed to make the trains a fertile breeding ground for the insects.
Sawittee Malaipan, an entomologist at Kasetsart University, said some foreigners, including refugees and tourists, did not like to take baths and so they attracted the insects.
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