“No cases of infectious diseases associated with tick bites have been reported. In all regions of the Russian Federation, Rospotrebnadzor organized work on the prevention of diseases associated with tick bites, ”the report says.
As noted, more than 800 thousand people have been vaccinated from tick-borne encephalitis since the beginning of the year, and more than 3 million are planned to be vaccinated.
Earlier, the weather center warned about the beginning of the season of ticks in the metropolitan area.
In the fall of 2018, the Investigation Department of the Russian IC in the Tyumen region opened a criminal case after the death of a ten-year-old girl in a hospital. As reported by URA.RU, the child’s mother claimed that her daughter had been bitten by a tick while going to the forest for mushrooms, and the staff of the regional hospital No. 12 allegedly didn’t have time to help.