500 Tomsk residents suffered from tick bites over the weekend
This is the result of the weekend in Tomsk. In two days, the number of those bitten by bloodsuckers doubled - to almost 1,200 people. About two hundred of them are children. Due to the cold spring, there are far fewer victims of tick bites this year than in the same period last year. By May 17, 2009, three thousand Tomsk residents applied to seroprophylaxis centers in the city, MediaFM reports. The first tick bite was recorded in the region on April 22.