Tick-borne encephalitis threatens almost all of Switzerland

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Source: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/insect...-threatens-almost-all-of-switzerland/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...

 

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Source: https://menafn.com/1099256957/Switz...is-cases-remain-high-despite-vaccination-push

Switzerland- Tick-borne encephalitis cases remain high, despite vaccination push
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11/11/2019 2:38:55 PM

Over 250 cases of the tick-borne early summer meningo-encephalitis (ESME) disease have been recorded in Switzerland so far in 2019, the second-highest number since the year 2000.
In its weekly bulletin published Monday, the Federal Office for Public Health (FOPH) wrote that 251 cases of the disease had been reported up to the end of October. The government urged a nationwide vaccination against the disease at the start of the year.
The figure is second-only to the record 353 of last year. The third-most cases reported in a single year came in 2017, with 250. Overall, since the year 2000, annual cases have fluctuated, with some years seeing less than 100 incidences, but with a steady rise in the past five years...