Increase in diagnosed asthma but not in symptoms in the European Community Respiratory Health Survey (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Information on the epidemiology of asthma in relation to age is limited and hampered by reporting error. To determine the change in the prevalence of asthma with age in young adults we ana
Safe drinking water and clean air: an experimental study evaluating the concept of combining household water treatment and indoor air improvement... (Publications)
Indoor air pollution and unsafe water remain two of the most important environmental risk factors for the global burden of infectious diseases. Improved stoves and household water treatment (HWT) meth
Screening of various foodstuffs for occurrence of<em> Coxiella burnetii</em> in Switzerland (Publications)
The epidemiology of Q-fever in Switzerland is largely unknown. For this reason, a screening programme for the presence of Coxiella burnetii in bulk milk samples from cows, sheep and goats and in shell
The practical importance of permanent and semipermanent habitats for controlling aquatic stages of <em>Anopheles gambiae</em> <em>sensu lato</em>... (Publications)
Summary Control of aquatic-stage Anopheles is one of the oldest and most historically successful interventions to prevent malaria, but it has seen little application in Africa. Consequently, the ecolo
Contacts between poultry farms, their spatial dimension and their relevance for avian influenza preparedness (Publications)
Ongoing economic losses by and exposure of humans to highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in poultry flocks across Asia and parts of Africa and Europe motivate also outbreak-free countries such as