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A Qantas flight from Italy to Australia was cancelled on 12 October after multiple passengers on the aircraft’s previous sector complained of bedbug bites, prompting the airline to dispatch a specialist cleaning and disinfection team to the aircraft.
The episode has once again underlined how easily pests can travel through luggage and seat crevices on long international routes, a risk that grows alongside the post-pandemic rebound in intercontinental travel.
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