Category: Switzerland
Diptheria: First case in Switzerland for 40 years
Several people have been infected with diphtheria at a centre for asylum seekers – the first known cases of the bacterial infection in Switzerland in nearly 40 years.… ...More...
Preprint: Monkeypox has epidemic potential
“Monkeypox has epidemic potential”
“We conclude that circulation of smallpox, followed by worldwide smallpox vaccination, have previously protected human populations from monkeypox epidemics.… ...More...
West European summer Covid wave brewing *6 updates, 1 prediction*
A new western European summer Covid wave appears to be developing, with increases in cases in countries that also saw large waves in the summer of 2021.… ...More...
European countries with compulsory vaccination – latest updates
An update on the various mandatory vaccination policies across Europe.… ...More...
Europe: Another huge Covid wave is building right across the continent
Almost every country in Europe is now seeing a big increase in Covid cases.… ...More...
Switzerland adds UK, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Egypt and Malawi to travel alert list for Omicron
The Swiss Ministry of Health has put more countries on a quarantine list because of the Omikron variant.… ...More...
Europe: all-time Covid infection record broken by growing winter superwave
Europe has broken through its all-time high for Covid cases, and is seeing sharp increases in infections right across the continent.… ...More...
Prediction: European Covid winter wave of 2021 will be the worst wave of the pandemic so far
This isn’t the most difficult prediction we have ever had to make, but there is no doubt that, despite huge vaccination campaigns across the continent, the winter wave now breaking over Europe will be their worst wave of the pandemic so far.… ...More...
WHO: 500,000 deaths from Covid in Europe this winter
“The current pace of transmission across the 53 countries of the European Region is of grave concern,” said regional WHO head Hans Kluge.… ...More...
The waxing and waning of the coronavirus pandemic in Europe shows new danger areas emerging
Europe has seen major changes in coronavirus case rates over the last two months.… ...More...
USA/UK: 2 separate clades of Delta #coronavirus variant with K417N – AY.1 and AY.2
Through routine scanning of variation in Delta, a small number of sequences were detected which had acquired the spike protein mutation K417N.… ...More...
UK: Delta with K417N – the “mountaineers” variant – PHE coronavirus Delta-AY.1 update
Of the 36 cases of Delta-AY.1 (mountaineers) variant, 27 cases were known to have a vaccination status within the National Immunisation Management System (NIMS). … ...More...
EU: ECHR throws fuel on the #coronavirus vaccination fire – backs mandatory jabs for kids
The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday that democratic governments can make vaccinations obligatory, in a landmark judgement rejecting complaints brought by Czech families penalised for refusing compulsory jabs for their children.… ...More...
Switzerland: Stage III hypertension in patients after mRNA-based SARS-CoV-2 #coronavirus vaccination with Pfizer/Biontech & Moderna
On January 11th 2021, the vaccination Center in Lausanne, a city of 140’000 inhabitants in western Switzerland, started the COVID-19 vaccination with mRNA-based vaccines.… ...More...