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BERN, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland, as part of its efforts to eradicate measles, is changing its obligatory health insurance laws effective 1 January 2013, so that people will not have to pay the deductible for MMR vaccinations. The change applies to anyone born in or after 1964, in order to ensure that unvaccinated adults are covered. [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Hug university hospitals in Geneva were handed a surprise strike Thursday 6 October by the workers who transport patients and material, and the union for which they work and hospital officials immediately met. The hospital says in a statement issued during the morning that its first preoccupation is the patients, and [...]
BERN, SWITZERLAND – The 2011 measles epidemic that spiked in Basel, Geneva and Lausanne in the first four months of the year is moving on to eastern Switzerland, figures published Monday by the Federal Public Health Office show, with 515 cases throughout the country from 1 January to 24 May. The 2011 epidemic appears to [...]
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Two women travelling through airports in the US, at least one of them from France and the other from Europe, were diagnosed with measles shortly after their arrival, sparking a major effort by health authorities in several states to track down people travelling on the same flights. The US has a [...]
Neighbouring Rhone-Alps area epidemic well underway Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Geneva public health authorities are alerting doctors and the public of a sudden increase in the number of cases of measles, with 26 cases since the start of the year, 20 of those in the past 28 days. The first three cases arrived from Haute-Savoie, [...]
Federal Council will consult on plan for how big banks can fail, negotiate withholding tax on foreigners’ accounts Measles, tougher penal sentences, electricity suppliers, corporate tax rates all on the 2011 schedule Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss Government, fresh from the defeat of its counter-initiative in the vote on foreign convicts 28 November, has [...]
WHO’s first-ever simultaneous Immunization Week underway Switzerland, recommendations for measles vaccination: part of the MMR (MOR in French) vaccine against measles, mumps, rubella, with the first dose at age 12 months, second dose at 15-24 months, moved up to 12-15 months for children in daycare centres Bern / Geneva, Switzerland – Switzerland’s focus for world [...]
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – This is world vaccination week, and Switzerland, with its low 87 percent coverage rate, is taking it seriously. Federal authorities say they are working more closely with the cantons to ensure that Switzerland raises its vaccination rate to a more acceptable 95 percent of the population. The federal health ministry notes [...]
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – EPFL in Lausanne is still tallying the final figures, but it appears that nearly 1,800 people were vaccinated against measle in a three-day campaign after the highly infectious disease broke out on the campus in mid-March. Up to 800 people received a first shot and slightly more received their second dose [...]
Lake Geneva region, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The measles epidemic in Switzerland, that has been making the rounds slowly since mid-2008 has now touched two universities and an army training centre in Vaud.
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