Amazing coincidence.
I got back from my Doctors surgery an hour ago with a leaflet about Tick-borne Encephalitis and saw this thread.
"1 in 100 patients will die from it"
"It is transmitted to humans via bites from an infected ixodes tick. Less commonly from drinking unpasturised milk from infected animals."
"Tick-borne Enceophalitis occurs in the far eastern part of the former USSR (my immediate concern) extending into China. It can also be found in European Russia, Austria, Hungary, the Balkans, Czech Republic, Slovakia ans Scandinavia where it is mainly a disease of the forest."
It seems it has to be a certain type of tick. It has to be infected. It has to be in an endemic area - and mainly a forest within it.
Vaccination is a course of 2 or 3 injections a month apart. In UK not NHS. Only from specialised travel medical centres. Cost £64
Tick-borne Encephalitis
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