Unlike Lyme disease in the United States, tick-borne encephalitis has an effective inactivated-virus vaccine in routine use across central Europe and parts of Asia. In Austria, where childhood vaccination is widespread, the annual TBE incidence dropped roughly 90 percent after the program was introduced.
Tick-borne encephalitis is overwhelmingly transmitted by Ixodes ricinus and I. persulcatus bites, but small European outbreaks regularly…
Dermacentor reticulatus carries tick-borne encephalitis virus in parts of central and eastern Europe, and is also a principal vector of…
An FDA-approved Lyme vaccine for humans (LYMErix) was on the United States market from 1998 to 2002 before being withdrawn over weak…
Dermacentor reticulatus, the ornate dog tick, has expanded explosively across central Europe since 2000. It now occupies all 16 German…
A single tick species, Amblyomma americanum, transmits ehrlichiosis from Ehrlichia chaffeensis and E. ewingii, tularemia, Heartland virus,…
Ixodes ricinus, the castor bean tick, is the European cousin of Ixodes scapularis and the dominant Lyme vector across Europe from Portugal…