https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Swedish companies offer generous holiday allowances, and with a range of secret tricks you can make them stretch even further. Here's how to make the most of Sweden's public holidays in 2019. https://www.thelocal.se/20181230/how-to-make-the-most-of-swedens-public-holidays-in-2019 Sun, 30 Dec 2018 09:56:58 +0100 how-to-make-the-most-of-swedens-public-holidays-in-2019 A Swedish boy in grade six who was supposed to get his measles jab was instead injected with the Gardasil vaccine, which is normally offered to Swedish teen girls to ward off the HPV virus that can cause cervical cancer. https://www.thelocal.se/20130502/47672 Thu, 02 May 2013 14:05:00 +0200 47672 Another child has been infected with a strain of multiresistant bacteria at the same hospital in central Sweden where three newborns died from similar infections in August. https://www.thelocal.se/20090921/22208 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:44:00 +0200 22208 A 55-year-old man has died from suspected swine flu, the Västmanland regional health authority has announced. If the virus is confirmed, it will be Sweden’s second swine flu death, after a man in the Uppsala region who had contracted the virus died last Friday. https://www.thelocal.se/20090903/21866 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:47:00 +0200 21866 Two of seventeen people charged with illegally fishing more than 100 tonnes of cod from Swedish waters admitted wrongdoing on Wednesday in one of Sweden’s largest ever fish poaching cases. https://www.thelocal.se/20080827/13970 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:36:00 +0200 13970