More than 120 people have been hospitalized with this diagnosis. Over 4000 people have reported for medical examination after being bitten by ticks. Previously it was reported that 4 people have died of tick bites this summer in the Irkutsk region, and more than 100 people have been hospitalized.
Specialists stress the low percentage of preventive inoculations, which results in complications.
Specialists at the Regional Centre for Prophylaxis report that ticks have become more active in Maritime forests than in the previous few years. That is a result of unusually dry and hot weather that has set in this summer in the Maritime region. The number of intestinal infections has also doubled in the region.