Olympics-South Korea deploys sniffer dog to screen for bedbugs after Paris Games

FILE PHOTO: Paris 2024 Olympics - Press visit at the Olympic and Paralympic athletes' Village - Saint-Denis, France - July 2, 2024 General view of an apartment at the Olympic and Paralympic athletes village ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo

INCHEON, South Korea (Reuters) - South Korea has deployed a bedbug sniffer dog at its main Incheon international airport in a bid to reduce the risk of the tiny insects entering the country when athletes, officials and fans return from the Paris Olympics.

Leading the campaign is a two-year-old beagle named Ceco, who pest control company Cesco said is the first and so far only canine trained in the country to detect the odour of pheromones, the chemicals released by bedbugs.