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

¹ The FOPH shall in­form the pub­lic, spe­cif­ic groups of per­sons, au­thor­it­ies and ex­perts about the dangers of com­mu­nic­able dis­eases and about the op­tions for pre­vent­ing and con­trolling such dis­eases.

² It shall reg­u­larly pub­lish com­pil­a­tions and ana­lyses about the nature, in­cid­ence, causes and spread of com­mu­nic­able dis­eases.

³ It shall pub­lish re­com­mend­a­tions on meas­ures against com­mu­nic­able dis­eases and on hand­ling patho­gens and shall ad­apt them reg­u­larly in line with the cur­rent state of sci­entif­ic know­ledge. If oth­er fed­er­al of­fices are af­fected, the FOPH shall act in con­sulta­tion with them.

⁴ The FOPH and the com­pet­ent can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies shall co­ordin­ate their in­form­a­tion activ­it­ies.