Die durch den Klimawandel verursachte globale Erwärmung hat in vielen Regionen der Welt, so auch in Deutschland, eine vermehrte Häufigkeit und Dauer von Hitzeereignissen zur Folge. Hitze kann den menschlichen Organismus gesundheitlich stark belasten und auch für das Gesundheitswesen können Hi ... tzeperioden ein Problem darstellen. Abhilfe können hier - ne- ben Klimaschutzmaßnahmen - gemeinsame Anstrengungen zur Prävention von Hitzeauswir- kungen auf die Bevölkerung schaffen more

Background: The impacts of air pollutants on health range from short-term health impairments to hospital admissions and deaths. Climate change is leading to an increase in air pollution.

ECDC Technical Report
In line with ECDC’s recommendations provided in the ’Risk Assessment of HTLV-1/2 transmission by tissue/cell transplantation’ dated 14 March 2012, this Directive replaces the term ‘incidence’ with ‘prevalence’ in the description of endemic areas of HTLV-1/2 i ... nfection. According to the new requirements ‘HTLV-1 antibody testing must be performed for donors living in, or originating from high-prevalence areas or with sexual partners originating from those areas or where the donor’s parents originate from those areas’ and this applies to both donors of non-reproductive tissues and cells and reproductive cells.
ECDC contracted experts from the Institut Pasteur in Paris to systematically review the published evidence on the distribution of HTLV-1 infection prevalence throughout the world and to identify high-prevalence countries and areas. more