Emergency prevention of tick-borne encephalitis

Abstract

On the territory of the Russian Federation tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is registered in over 1.550 administrative districts of 41 regions, territories and autonomous republics. Over the entire period of observations since the official start of records in 1939, the manifestations have remained seasonal (May, August) with regular periods of rise in morbidity (9-11 years) caused by changes of the total quantity and percentage of infected ticks in the total [1, 2]