In the Sverdlovsk region for holiday weekend mites bitten by 520 people. Since the beginning of the season, 3287 inhabitants of the region have suffered from these arthropods. Among children under the age of 17, 725 cases of sucking of ticks.

The mites attacked people in 60 municipalities of the region. The greatest number of cases was registered in Pyshminsky, Talitsky urban districts, Slobodo-Turinsky municipal district, Irbit, Kamensk-Uralsky and Reftinsky.

At the moment, 7 people have been hospitalized in the treatment and prophylactic organizations of the region with a preliminary diagnosis of tick-borne virus encephalitis, 11 patients with a preliminary diagnosis of tick-borne ixorid borreliosis.

As of May 10, in the laboratories of the Federal Budgetary Health Care Institution "Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in the Sverdlovsk Region", 1218 individuals. Antigen of tick-borne encephalitis virus was detected in 23 samples (1.9%); 1004 mites were examined by the PCR method for borreliosis, 296 positive samples were detected (29.5%); For other tick-borne infections (monocytic erlichiosis and granulocyte anaplasmosis), 835 mites were examined, 18 samples (2.2%) were detected positive for monocytic erlichiosis, 9 samples (1.1%) for granulocyte anaplasmosis.