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Russia - Tick season starting early this year in Rospotrebnadzor region

sharon sanders

Editor-in-Chief & President
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April 1, 2014 08:57 (MSK) | Society | AIF Irkutsk
Woke up in the Angara whether mites?
In the Irkutsk region hospitals have already begun to address patients with tick bites. Is it still possible to put entsifalita vaccinated against?

Forests, fields and even parks now dangerous to the public: woke bloodsucking "predator". This year, the season of his activity in our region began earlier than usual. Only in the last days of March, five residents of the Angara region appealed to the hospital with insect bites. Fortunately, a dangerous diagnosis never confirmed, but the risk is high.

As told Irina Chumachenko, deputy head of supervision on transport and sanitary protection of the territory of the regional Rospotrebnadzor, in the past, the incidence of our countrymen tick-borne encephalitis virus has exceeded the national average by 2.3 times. Another dangerous disease - tick-borne rickettsiosis residents of Irkutsk Region sick almost twice as likely than the average Russians. 30% higher than the national average, and a year ago was the incidence of tick-borne borelliozom.

Now in medical institutions of the region received 8,000 doses of immunoglobulin protivokleschevye - preparation for emergency prevention and treatment of tick-borne encephalitis. According to experts, this will be enough for the first half of the season.

Peak tick activity is predicted in mid-May. According to Irina Chumachenko Siberians still not too late to put preventive vaccination. Immunity is formed about a half months, so those who introduce the vaccine in early April, will be reserved for the second half of May. It then enters the active phase of the tourist season.

http://news.mail.ru/inregions/siberian/38/society/17632996/
 
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