Federal Act
on Controlling Communicable Human Diseases
(Epidemics Act, EpidA)

¹ The com­pet­ent can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies shall en­sure the re­quired epi­demi­olo­gic­al in­vest­ig­a­tions, in par­tic­u­lar on the nature, cause, source of in­fec­tion and spread of a de­tec­ted or sus­pec­ted dis­ease. They shall co­ordin­ate their activ­it­ies and in­form the FOPH about the res­ults.

² The com­pet­ent fed­er­al au­thor­ity shall provide the can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies with pro­fes­sion­al sup­port with the epi­demi­olo­gic­al in­vest­ig­a­tions. It may con­duct such in­vest­ig­a­tions it­self, par­tic­u­larly if the can­ton con­cerned re­quests it to do so.