Cologne - As bad as it has never ... In the park, on the football field, at the barbecue - wherever the white cotton wool-things flying around.
"Mistakenly Puschel are referred to as the white poplar pollen. Facts: This is the so-called 'poplar' from the aspen (aspen)," said Reinhard Muck, Deputy Head of the district office parks Cologne. "The 'poplar' is completely safe and causes no allergy to 99.9 percent." The pollen used to fly - in the period from February to April.
"If it has yet to wind comes, you feel as if you stuck in deep snow. Why is this year really so extreme?" Asks EXPRESS reader Martina Klein.
The answer: "It is because in the last few days was extremely warm and no rain for long periods of time has," says Muck.
Not only in the hair and the clothes remain hanging, the white pollen. They also cause nose and itchy eyes and sore throat.
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