Since the beginning of the year 10326 people in the Sverdlovsk region have bitten pincers. This is 1.5 times lower than the average multi-year level. The cases of ticks sucking were registered in the 61st municipality of the region.

At the moment, 38 people have been hospitalized in the treatment and prophylactic organizations of the region with a preliminary diagnosis of tick-borne virus encephalitis; Laboratory confirmed 1 diagnosis. With the diagnosis of tick-borne ixodial borreliosis, 103 people were hospitalized; Laboratory confirmed in 19 people.

As of May 29, in the laboratories of the federal budgetary health care institution "Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in the Sverdlovsk Region", 2707 mites were tested, the tick-borne encephalitis virus antigen was detected in 54 samples (2.1%); The method of PCR for borreliosis examined 2,061 samples, positive - 611 samples; PCR method for other tick-borne infections (monocytic erlichiosis and granulocyte anaplasmosis), 1817 samples positive for monocytic erlichiosis were studied - 46 samples (2.5%) were detected, 22 samples (1.2%) for granulocyte anaplasmosis.