Verbier, Valais, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – About 50 residents at Les Elfes, an international summer camp in Swiss ski resort Verbier, canton Valais, are being treated for A/H1N1 swine flu after coming down with symptoms last week, the latest outbreak among groups of school-age children and youths in the region. Valais cantonal authorities said in a release (Fre) that the situation was “under control”. About 40 young people and 10 monitors came down with the flu. The camp’s other participants were treated and let go. Some of the children have left for home already, according to the press release.
Swiss health authorities have been seeing what the World Health Organization (WHO) says is generally the case in other countries where the number of cases is growing rapidly: that the flu spreads rapidly but the cases reported so far are for the most part mild. The WHO is no longer insisting that countries like Switzerland report individual cases but is urging continued close monitoring in case the A1N1 develops mutations.
Related:“Verbier summer camp follows Megeve with swine flu“, 13 July 2009, GenevaLunch
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News story, GenevaLunch, 21 July 2009.
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