FURTHER INFORMATION
EMERGENCY NUMBERS
📞 112 – Fire brigade & rescue service (for life-threatening emergencies)
📞 116 117 – Medical on-call service (for non-life-threatening but urgent medical problems)
📞 19222 – Call an Ambulance in Hamburg
📞 040 42851 5000 – Hamburg fire brigade (for non-life-threatening incidents)
📞 040 1816 000 – Hamburg poison control center
📞 0800 111 0111 – Telephone counseling service (free & anonymous)
📞 0800 111 0222 – Telephone counseling service for children & young people
📞 116 016 – Helpline for violence against Women
📞 040 432 924 00 – Hamburg emergency number for victims of rape
IMPORTANT CONTACT POINTS
offers private individuals information on infectious diseases, vaccination recommendations, health statistics and current pandemics. It also provides guides on hygiene, travel medicine and disease prevention.
BNITM - Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg
offers travelers medical advice, vaccinations and diagnostics for tropical diseases. It provides information on health risks, malaria prophylaxis and necessary protective measures for travel to risk areas.
Helpful Tools
Lebensmittelwarnung (Food warning)
On the portal lebensmittelwarnung.de, the 16 federal states and the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) publish, among other things, public product recalls by companies within the scope of their responsibilities.
The information is only available in German.
Shop without toxins with the ToxFox app
Invisible but dangerous: Many everyday products contain harmful substances that are associated with diseases such as cancer or infertility. BUND has developed ToxFox, an app that helps consumers check cosmetics and everyday products for harmful substances.
The information is only available in German.
Krankheitsausbrüche in Deutschland 2023
The report provides up-to-date data on the frequency and causes of foodborne disease outbreaks and is intended to improve food safety and protect public health.
The information is only available in German.