The Federal Office for Public Health Safety has been informed by the Romanian authorities that two new human WNV (meningitis/meningoencephalitits) infections have been confirmed in the capital city of Bucharest.

The Federal Office for Public Health Safety has been informed by the Italian authority that four confirmed cases of malaria have been recorded in non-EU citizens in Italy (Apulia Region: Ginosa, Taranto Province).

In a letter dated September 27, 2017, the marketing authorization holder informed its customers that an incorrect expiration date was printed on batch 7103 of "Coldan Nasal Spray". The expiration date was printed incorrectly as "2022-06" (June 2022),…

The Federal Office for Public Health Safety has been informed by the Italian authority that two more confirmed autochthonous chikungunya cases have been recorded. The reports themselves come from Rome - Lazio Region and Reggio Emilia - Emilia Romagna Region.

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.