Tick ​​infections

Speaking of diseases that ticks carry, they often mean infectious diseases. In Russia, tick-borne encephalitis and Lyme disease are best known. Less commonly, cases of bacterial infections are recorded - tuleria, Crimean-Congo fever and human granulocytic anaplasmosis ...

TBE virus can be carried by 14 types of ticks, two of which are the main vectors: the dog tick (Ixodes ricinus) and the taiga tick (Ixodes persulcatus). The first carries mainly the European subtype of the virus, the second - the Far Eastern and Siberian subtypes. The last two subtypes are considered especially dangerous because of the large number of deaths they cause and irreversible damage to health ...

Tick-borne borreliosis (otherwise - Lyme borreliosis) is the second most important tick-borne infection after tick-borne encephalitis in Eurasia. Next, we will talk about the specifics of the disease, its danger to humans and the stages of the course, and also see what signs can be used to recognize infection after a tick bite ...

Tick ​​bites can be deadly not only for humans, but also for dogs. However, if tick-borne encephalitis and Lyme borreliosis pose the greatest threat to humans, then in the case of dogs, the situation is somewhat different ...

Although tick-borne encephalitis usually begins abruptly, after a tick bite, it is always preceded by an incubation period, during which the amount of virus in the human body gradually increases. Next, we will talk about how long this period lasts and what symptoms can suggest in advance that the infection has nevertheless occurred ...

When the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi enters the body of a tick, the parasite becomes a kind of incubator for this infection. Throughout the further life cycle of such a borreliosis tick, its bite will pose a serious danger to human health. On the natural reservoirs of tick-borne borreliosis, its carriers and the nuances of human infection, we will go on and talk in more detail ...