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On Monday afternoon, the SDA news agency sent a report on the increase in tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) infections. That's what a young woman who died at the beginning of July in Brittnau says as a result of a tick bite. Several media, including AZ, have recorded the message. Later, it turned out that she was wrong. In the evening, the SDA corrected the original message. The sentence on Brittnau's death appears "wrongly in this report", it is said in the explanatory memorandum. Death does not come this year.
In fact, death goes back more than ten years, as a glance at the Swiss media database shows. In 2006, a Brittnau schoolgirl, aged 15, died of a tick bite on meningitis and encephalitis. At that time, several newspapers reported the death of the young woman.
But how did a death of twelve years ago appear in a news bulletin from the news agency? An SDA publisher says on request that it is an "editorial error". The author has copied part of the message from an older message.
record for Aargau
The Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) gives "for reasons of personality protection, in principle, no information on individual cases," says Daniel Koch, Head of the BAG Communicable Diseases Department. However, the Federal Office publishes weekly the number of reported cases of tick-borne encephalitis, or TBE for short. Since the beginning of the year, 167 cases have been reported in Switzerland. This is "very high" in a multi-year comparison, writes the BAG in the management report. In 2017, 79 cases were reported during the same period, compared with 76 cases in 2016.
According to Koch, Aargau is one of the leaders, with 27 TBE cases up to now. Only the canton of Zurich reported more infections. "But the Canton of Zurich also has a lot more inhabitants," says Koch. For Aargau, 27 cases in six months are "really many cases". More than ever. In 2017, 13 cases were reported in the same period, compared to 11 in 2016. In previous years, even fewer than 10 cases.
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