{"id":58149,"date":"2026-04-05T17:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/vial-marked-polonium-210-sparks-scare-during-german-easter-egg-hunt\/05\/04\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T17:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:14:10","slug":"vial-marked-polonium-210-sparks-scare-during-german-easter-egg-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/vial-marked-polonium-210-sparks-scare-during-german-easter-egg-hunt\/05\/04\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Vial marked &#8216;Polonium 210&#8217; sparks scare during German Easter egg hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An Easter egg hunt in south-western Germany took a worrying turn on Sunday when two men discovered a vial labelled &#8220;Polonium 210&#8221; in a garden, triggering an emergency response as authorities tested for the potentially lethal radioactive substance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">District fire chief Andy Dorroch said initial on-site measurements were carried out to detect radioactivity, but all of them came back negative. He added that the two men were unharmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The discovery led to a large-scale operation involving the fire brigade and police in the town of Vaihingen an der Enz, north-west of Stuttgart.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_1a758qoqk5elubsnoqdbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[#_R_1a758qoqk5elubsnoqdbH1_ { display: none; }\n@media screen and (max-width: 767.95px) {\n        #_R_1a758qoqk5elubsnoqdbH1_ { display: flex; }\n        iframe { max-width: 100vw; }\n      }]]><\/style>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It remains unclear whether the 50-millilitre vial actually contained polonium 210.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire brigade will secure the vial in accordance with safety precautions, the fire chief said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Reports said the area around the site where the bottle was found was cordoned off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS), the chemical element polonium is particularly dangerous if inhaled or absorbed through the skin via open wounds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/vial-marked-polonium-210-sparks-203728449.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Easter egg hunt in south-western Germany took a worrying turn on Sunday when two men discovered a vial labelled &ldquo;Polonium 210&rdquo;<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/vial-marked-polonium-210-sparks-scare-during-german-easter-egg-hunt\/05\/04\/2026\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/en\/dpa_international_526\/8fdfcb0a4040c364eac498c9774600c0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}