Ticks opened the hunting season with the arrival of April warmth in the Samara region | 04/24/2024 | Samara

The Office of Rospotrebnadzor for the Samara region has published statistics on tick bites. Since the beginning of the epidemic season, the province has registered 159 victims, 43 of them children.

According to the department, experts studied 137 ticks, which were taken from people. IN 2 of them tick-borne virus antigen was discovered encephalitis which amounted to 1.5% of the total number of specimens studied.

First of all, you should remember: ticks live in tall grass, forest areas, bushes and can even be found in urban home areas. Therefore, it is important to use insect repellents and carefully inspect your skin after being outdoors. We talked in more detail about measures to protect against bloodsuckers in our article. In places where there is a high risk of human infection, acaricidal treatments (against ticks) are carried out.

Ticks can be carriers of dangerous diseases. The main ones: encephalitis, Lyme borreliosis, babesios. They are serious and require immediate medical attention.