Source: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/insecte...rland/44731764
Tick-borne encephalitis threatens almost all of Switzerland
This content was published on February 4, 2019 2:34 PM Feb 4, 2019 - 14:34
Only two Swiss cantons are not considered ?at-risk? zones for tick-borne diseases, the Federal Office of Public Health has announced. Vaccination is recommended.
Following a recent government call for mass vaccinations against the debilitating tick-borne encephalitis disease, the health office said on Monday it considered the entire country ? except cantons Geneva and Ticino ? to be at risk.
In a press release (French)external link, the office repeated the call for anybody who may be exposed to ticks ? for example walkers, especially in forests ? to be vaccinated. Residents of Geneva or Ticino travelling outside their canton for such activities should also get the jab, it said...
...Last year 380 cases of tick-borne encephalitis, a debilitating disease that attacks the central nervous system and can be fatal, were reported in Switzerland, compared with 100 per year in previous years...
Tick-borne encephalitis threatens almost all of Switzerland
This content was published on February 4, 2019 2:34 PM Feb 4, 2019 - 14:34
Only two Swiss cantons are not considered ?at-risk? zones for tick-borne diseases, the Federal Office of Public Health has announced. Vaccination is recommended.
Following a recent government call for mass vaccinations against the debilitating tick-borne encephalitis disease, the health office said on Monday it considered the entire country ? except cantons Geneva and Ticino ? to be at risk.
In a press release (French)external link, the office repeated the call for anybody who may be exposed to ticks ? for example walkers, especially in forests ? to be vaccinated. Residents of Geneva or Ticino travelling outside their canton for such activities should also get the jab, it said...
...Last year 380 cases of tick-borne encephalitis, a debilitating disease that attacks the central nervous system and can be fatal, were reported in Switzerland, compared with 100 per year in previous years...
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