Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
Czechs register highest number of TBE cases in EU
ČTK | 6 FEBRUARY 2012
Prague, Feb 3 (CTK) - The Czech Republic has comfortably led the EU, in the negative sense of the word, in the portion of tick-borne encephalitis cases in the past decade, Czech expert Rastislav Madar, who attends a two-day conference on encephalitis in Vienna, has told CTK.
A total of 861 people caught the disease in the 10.5-million Czech Republic last year, and five died, Madar, Czech vaccination centres' guarantor, said.
Of all European countries, the situation is worse only in Russia, with a high occurrence of encephalitis mainly in Siberia, he said.
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http://praguemonitor.com/2012/02/06/czechs-register-highest-number-tbe-cases-eu
ČTK | 6 FEBRUARY 2012
Prague, Feb 3 (CTK) - The Czech Republic has comfortably led the EU, in the negative sense of the word, in the portion of tick-borne encephalitis cases in the past decade, Czech expert Rastislav Madar, who attends a two-day conference on encephalitis in Vienna, has told CTK.
A total of 861 people caught the disease in the 10.5-million Czech Republic last year, and five died, Madar, Czech vaccination centres' guarantor, said.
Of all European countries, the situation is worse only in Russia, with a high occurrence of encephalitis mainly in Siberia, he said.
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http://praguemonitor.com/2012/02/06/czechs-register-highest-number-tbe-cases-eu