As of: February 26, 2024, 6:38 p.m
By: Fabian Diekmann
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Countless mice are currently causing mischief at Frankfurt Airport.
Although they have set up many traps, the operators do not see this as an acute problem.
Frankfurt - After passengers have had to deal with several strikes at Frankfurt Airport in recent weeks, there is now the next, much smaller problem: As the website
Aero-Telegraph
reports, more and more rodents have been attracting attention there for some time.
Since the mice are regularly filmed by passengers during their activities, they even make it onto the Internet.
Whether in the lounges or at the restaurants in the Squaire, rodents can currently be found everywhere.
Cute at first glance, but also dangerous at second glance, as they can transmit some diseases - a mouse infestation is currently causing problems at Frankfurt Airport.
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The public order office closed the bakery at Frankfurt Airport due to a mouse infestation
The Frankfurt public order office has already noticed this.
A bakery in Squaire was even briefly banned from producing, processing and selling food in October 2023.
The problem: The food there was exposed to the risk of contamination.
Mouse droppings were found on shelves and on refrigerator tables.
The public order office found bite marks on chocolate bars and cable insulators.
During a follow-up inspection a day later, the majority of the deficiencies had been remedied.
The bakery is now open again.
According to the Federal Environment Agency, mice can transmit diseases such as salmonella, typhus and Weil's jaundice to humans.
In addition to the health risks of a pest infestation, the economic ones should not be underestimated, as mice can cause short circuits and fires by gnawing cables.
5,000 mouse traps are set up at Frankfurt Airport
Frankfurt Airport is tackling the problem aggressively.
A spokesman confirmed to
Aero-Telegraph
that 5,000 traps have been laid throughout the airport to curb the spread of the rodents.
The speaker is not surprised that the mice are currently being seen more frequently.
In winter, the animals simply sought shelter in the warm buildings.
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A spokesman for the airport operator Fraport added in an interview with
hessenschau
that the problem has been around for a long time, but that it is becoming more visible to the public as more and more people are filming videos with their smartphones and uploading them to the Internet.
That's why he wouldn't describe the problem as acute.
(Fabian Diekmann)