Prague, Feb 1 (CTK) – The Czech Republic continues to lead the EU in the number of tick-borne encephalitis cases, in spite of its slight decline in 2015, Rostislav Madar, a member of the European working group for tick-borne encephalitis, told CTK on Monday.
A total of 351 cases were registered in the 10.5-million Czech Republic last year, the highest numbers in the regions of South Bohemia and Vysocina (southeast Bohemia and southwest Moravia). Two patients died.
A higher occurrence of the disease was also registered in Central Bohemia, South Moravia, and the Plzen (west Bohemia) and Pardubice (east Bohemia) regions.
As a result of droughts in 2015, the total number of cases declined from 410 in 2014.
Three Czech patients got infected from unprocessed goat milk.
Four Czechs got infected abroad – in Austria, Norway, Sweden and Kazakhstan, respectively.
Citizens of the USA, Lithuania and Slovakia got infected in the Czech Republic.
