Tag: Agency for Health and Food Safety
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“Urgently advise against” – poisons: warning against bathing in the reservoir remains in effect
Swimming in the Ottenstein reservoir in the Waldviertel is still not recommended. A study has now confirmed that there are toxins of cyanobacteria,...
Protection plan adjusted – AGES expects up to 500 heat deaths this year
Last year there were 231 heat-related deaths in Austria. In 2023, the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) expects 300 to 500...
EU authority alerted: – Already 134 cases of salmonella with chicken meat
A total of at least 134 cases of salmonella infections have now been reported in ten EU countries plus Norway, believed to be linked...
Local beekeepers are now trembling for this hornet
After sightings of the Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) on the Austro-Hungarian border, the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) has called on beekeepers...
“Brain Eater”: vacationers should protect themselves against this
What a horror: while bathing, a man in Pakistan became infected with a brain-eating amoeba - he died. And we have these beasts...
