Category: General Interest

Most households have a microwave, but there are still skeptical people because they fear that the quality of food and health will suffer. Is this the case? Like most technologies, microwave ovens were developed to simplify our lives by reducing the amount of work we have to do. However, several people believe that using a microwave removes vitamins and nutrients from food. But isn’t the use of microwaves dangerous? How do they work? Microwaves, whose cable does not belong in multiple sockets, use the radiation of the water molecules in…

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According to a study, about one in 10 people hospitalized for a coronavirus showed white spots on the retina. However, these pathological changes subsided after three months, a Swiss research team from Geneva reported in the Journal of Clinical Medicine. The researchers examined the eyes of 172 hospitalized patients who suffered respiratory distress due to Sars-CoV-2 infection. According to the study, eleven percent showed retinal damage, which manifested as white spots. These were due to occlusion of the small arteries, triggered by an embolism or inflammation. Lead author Gordana Sunaric…

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Do you have plans to spend your vacation in Italy soon? Italy is currently extending the travel rules until the end of May. Italy is extending current rules for travel to and from foreign countries until May 31. Thus, travelers to Italy must continue to present a vaccination certificate or a negative rapid test. Abolished next Sunday (May 1) is the obligation to fill out the European Passenger Locator Form. This obligation entered into force on May 24, 2021. Italy will extend the mask requirement on trains, subways, buses, and…

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According to the ZAMG forecast, the weekend will be unsettled and prone to showers in large parts of Austria. Only in the east of the country should it remain predominantly dry. After a sunny start to the weekend, increasingly unsettled and shower-prone weather will spread across Austria over the next few days. This was reported by the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG). The east of the country remains over the weekend for outdoor activities in advantage: There, it should stay largely dry. Still little chance of showers on…

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Since Easter, Austria has managed mainly without Corona restrictions. But for those entering the country, the rules are strict. There is also the threat of quarantine. Corona measures in Austria are as reasonable as abolished – apart from the FFP2 obligation in the vital indoor setting and healthcare. Around Easter, the last G-rules fell in the catering industry and at events. Surprisingly for many at the time, the federal capital also largely followed the rules because Vienna was always known for stricter rules until now. The Ministry of Health says…

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“An estimated 60 to 80 percent of the EU population has now been infected with Covid,” EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said Wednesday. Registered Corona cases in about 30 percent of the EU population According to the EU health agency, the reported instances affect about 30 percent of the European population. Further mutation of coronavirus possible If unreported infections are added, the number could be as high as 350 million people, or about 77 percent. Because the number of Covid-19-related illnesses and deaths has recently declined, the EU is now…

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Measles cases worldwide are rising very rapidly. As a result, the World Health Organization (WHO) believes millions of children are at risk, it reported Wednesday in Geneva. The number of reported cases in the first two months of 2022 was 79 percent higher than in the same period last year. The reason for the increase, it said, is that too many children are not being vaccinated, partly because vaccination programs were interrupted as a result of the Corona pandemic. Similarly, some countries had to use funds earmarked for measles vaccination…

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The world’s oldest person, Japanese Kane Tanaka, died at 119. As announced by the local government of her hometown Fukuoka, located in southwestern Japan, Tanaka died already on April 19. According to the Gerontology Research Group, Frenchwoman Lucile Randon is now the world’s oldest person at 118 years and 73 days. According to the Ministry of Health, Japan’s oldest person is now 115-year-old Fusa Tatsumi from Kashiwara in Osaka Prefecture. Tanaka was born on Jan. 2, 1903, as the seventh child, with eight siblings. In 1922, she married at the…

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The company funded the study, and the EMA continues to see no need for a fourth vaccination for everyone. The initially high level of protection against hospitalizations and emergency room visits in Omicron decreases after only a few months following booster vaccination with the Biontech/Pfizer vaccine. New study data from Southern California published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine shows this. “Covid-19 booster vaccinations with Pfizer/Biontech significantly improve protection against omicron, although this protection appears to wane after three months against emergency department visits and even hospitalizations,” summarized the study’s lead…

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