Switzerland: Sickness on the Slopes

The little Alpine ski resort of Zermatt rakes in a lucrative $10 million from visitors each year, but the authorities there know that customers are notoriously fickle; overnight a touch of bad weather, bad service in the hotels or an ugly scandal can send hundreds of tourists off in a huff to St. Moritz or Davos. Hence the reluctance of Zermatt's townsmen to talk about the curious wave of illness that began popping up three months ago. They stolidly ignored word from a Zurich physician that a patient just back from skiing...

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