186 Total notified cases

The Federal Office for Public Health Safety has been informed by the Romanian authority that, in addition to the regions already announced, a confirmed human WNV infection (meningitis/encephalitis) has occurred in the Calarasi region.

Vienna (OTS) - The Ministry of Health and AGES Medizinmarktaufsicht/Federal Office for Safety in Health Care Austria, together with the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Finance, were again able to seize numerous illegal medicines this…

"ALK -Abelló Allergie -Service GmbH "has informed its supplied customers in a letter dated 21.09.2017 that bottles of "Pangramin Prick Rye Flour" with brown colored and cloudy solutions have been detected. These solutions can lead to false negative…

Situation at EU level and in Austria In several EU countries, illegal and untested medicines are being offered for sale under the name ZDOROV Propolis Cream on supposedly trustworthy but ultimately fake Internet sites. In doing so, the perpetrators…

Five events of local transmission of malaria have been reported recently in the EU. Three of these events were associated with either mosquito-borne transmission around an imported case (introduced malaria) or an imported infected mosquito (airport malaria), in Greece and northern Cyprus (P. vivax), and in France (P. falciparum), and two were most likely associated with nosocomial transmission of P. falciparum, in Italy and in Greece, either mosquito-borne or iatrogenic.

EMA launches survey for patients and healthcare professionals on knowledge of reporting adverse reactions - Federal Office for Safety in Health Care (BASG) recommends participation The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has launched a -> Survey survey…

Two related clusters involving autochthonous transmission of chikungunya virus have been detected in the cities of Anzio and Rome, two areas located 60 km apart in the Lazio region of Italy. Transmission of this type, in areas where Aedes albopictus mosquitoes are established and at a time when environmental conditions are suitable for increased mosquito abundance and activity, is not unexpected

The Federal Office for Public Health Safety has been informed by the Romanian authority that 6 additional confirmed human WNV (meningitis/meningoencephalitis) infections have occurred.

The Federal Office for Safety in Health Care was informed about the second confirmed human WNV infection (asymptomatic course, no known travel activity) in the area of Lower Austria.