The swine flu, what a drag!
GenevaLunch News [public health video] Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The fight against the A/H1N1 virus in the French-speaking part of Switzerland is taking on a new face, a drag face. The Federal Office...
View ArticleSpread of A/H1N1 flu in Switzerland could hinge on a medical certificate
GenevaLunch News Geneva and Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (OFSP) recommends that people who come down with symptoms of the flu avoid contact with others...
View ArticleNovartis announces start to clinical trials with A/H1N1 vaccine on humans
GenevaLunch News Basel and Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss drugs maker Novartis said 5 August it had begun trials of a swine flu vaccine on humans in Germany, the US and the UK. If the...
View ArticleDoctor infects 12 people with swine flu at Lausanne hospital
GenevaLunch News Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - A doctor who works in the maternity ward at the Cantonal University Hospital (Chuv) in Lausanne, just back from holidays abroad, infected 2...
View ArticleSwitzerland buys 13 million doses of A/H1N1 vaccine
GenevaLunch News Update 19.09 Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Switzerland joins other major industrialized nations in reserving 10 percent of the vaccines for donation to poorer countries, under the...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia takes steps against A/H1N1 flu in annual pilgrimage
GenevaLunch News Scientists from Saudi Arabia are assessing the risks posed by the annual hajj, pilgrimage, in the spread of the A/H1N1 swine flu virus along with experts from the World Health...
View ArticleMost Swiss will not be getting vaccinated: poll
GenevaLunch News Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - A vast majority of Swiss are not interested in getting a swine flu (A/H1N1) vaccination, when the campaign starts in two weeks time, according to a...
View ArticleBaby in Basel first swine flu death in Switzerland
GenevaLunch News Basel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A small baby who died last week is Switzerland’s first death related to the A/H1N1 flu, authorities in canton Basel Land have confirmed. No details...
View ArticleA/H1N1 flu spreads in Switzerland, vaccine available
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland confirmed 2,423 new cases of swine flu in the week ending 21 November, the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) announced Friday 27...
View ArticleWHO may call end to H1N1 pandemic soon
GenevaLunch News Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The World Health Organization (WHO) may soon declare the swine flu pandemic called out in 2009 over. It is winter in the southern hemisphere where...
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