Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Switzerland’s second death from A/H1N1 flu has taken place just a week after the first, but doctors point out that the patient, a woman over 50 with diabetes, could well have died if she contracted regular flu. TSR quotes the head of public health in Zurich as saying that in a normal year Zurich alone has some 100 flu-related deaths, generally caused by complications from existing  health problems.

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Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Health ministers from the 194 member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) have arrived in Geneva for the World Health Assembly which opens 18 May in Geneva with an agenda overshadowed by the A/H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic.

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