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Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A woman from canton Basel State was diagnosed at the Basel cantonal hospital with A/H1N1 swine flu in Switzerland, the third case in Switzerland. The national influenza centre in Geneva has not yet confirmed the diagnosis. She flew into Zurich from Washington DC, USA 22 May, announced the Federal Office of Public Health. Swiss health authorities obtained the list of passengers from the airline the woman was traveling on, and they will be informed by health authorities in their own countries.

In the previous confirmed case of a young Bernese woman, the airline she came back from Mexico on refused to give the authorities the names. As a result, the Swiss government is looking to change public health regulations covering pandemics in order to oblige airlines to provide passenger lists, reports TSR (Fre).