Public Health: HPA advises – Country walking? Think snakes
Poisons experts are advising people planning country and woodland walks this summer how to reduce their risk of a snake bite.
Poisons experts are advising people planning country and woodland walks this summer how to reduce their risk of a snake bite.
The foundations for a public health map for Europe, with a focus on environmental factors, have been laid, as part of an innovative HPA led project.
A new report by the Health Protection Agency’s independent Advisory Group on Non-ionising Radiation (AGNIR) has concluded that there is still no convincing evidence that mobile phone technologies cause adverse effects on human health.
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) is reminding people to be ‘tick aware’ this year and take sensible precautions to reduce their risk of Lyme disease, as Tick Bite Prevention Week (26 March – 1 April) begins.