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Flu protection measures, a public service announcement from GenevaLunch and the federal health office Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss health authorities in the final week of 2010 are reminding people that anyone considered “at risk” should be vaccinated now against the seasonal flu virus, now circulating. The H1N1 virus is also circulating and is expected [...]
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 some new cases are still being being recorded. The organization says it is too early to determine if H1N1 virus activity in southern hemisphere countries “have [...]
Basel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Profits at multinational Novartis rose 25 percent to $12.1 billion in the first quarter of 2010, well ahead of forecasts. Net income was up 49 percent to $2.1 billion. Government contracts to buy swine flu drugs played a significant role, the company noted 20 April in releasing Q1 results, although it [...]
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The fading role of traditional media and the rise of new media were overlooked by the WHO (World Health Organization), a root cause of some of the management problems with the H1N1 epidemic, a senior WHO official says. Keiji Fukuda, the WHO’s special advisor on pandemic influenza, was addressing 29 experts [...]
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The World Health Organization (WHO) publishged a report Friday 8 January that the number of deaths from the H1N1 flu have risen to 12,799 worldwide, but it also pinpointed areas where the virus remains strong. Switzerland was one of Europe’s top three countries for specimens testing positive:
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 November, bringing the total to 6,691 since the outbreak began. The pandemic has already claimed four deaths in Switzerland, all from high risk patients. FOPH estimates that [...]
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 [...]
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 about the child or the exact cause of death have been released. The federal health department says the flu is now growing more rapidly, exponentially, with [...]
Basel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss drug giant Roche confirmed Friday, 6 November, it was under investigation by the South Korean Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for illegally helping British bank HSBC and other companies in South Korea to acquire the drug tamiflu. The FDA raided the local offices of Roche 4 November and seized documents [...]
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