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Onishchenko counted those bitten by ticks
The head of Rospotrebnadzor, Gennady Onishchenko, said that 52 cases of tick-borne borreliosis have been registered in Russia, and 17 thousand people have already consulted doctors after being bitten by ticks.
“According to incomplete data, 16,860 suffered from tick bites, of which 5,679 were children,” said the country’s chief sanitary doctor. According to him, 129 people who were bitten went to clinics in Moscow, 118 in the Moscow region, 893 people in the Stavropol Territory, 586 in the Tula Region, 1667 in the Sverdlovsk Region, 1273 in the Altai Territory, 936 in Bashkiria. Tick-borne borreliosis was diagnosed in the Moscow, Lipetsk, Kaluga, Kursk, Ulyanovsk, Sverdlovsk regions and Tuva.
However, Onishchenko said that this year ticks are not as active as last year. This time, almost 1.9 million people in Russia were vaccinated against tick-borne encephalitis, in 2012 - almost 2 million people.
“You need to be very careful. You should wear long clothes. You shouldn’t go into the forest if you know that there are ticks there. If it’s a holiday village, then you can contact organizations that treat the area against ticks,” Onishchenko advised. — After walking outside the city, you need to examine yourself for ticks. If a tick is embedded, you need to drop some oil on it, it will fall off on its own. But in this case, the tick must be taken for examination."
Symptoms of tick-borne borreliosis include fever, headaches, fatigue and a characteristic skin rash. Tick-borne encephalitis is a viral infection. With this disease, fever occurs, intoxication occurs in the body, and the gray matter of the brain or the membranes of the brain and spinal cord are affected. Encephalitis can be fatal.