Tick-borne Encephalitis — Russia
Siberia is facing an historic battle against a tiny but sometimes deadly arachnid, the tick. In a vast Russian region that is frequently hit by flooding and wildfires and has not been spared from the coronavirus, ticks and the diseases they transmit are shaping up as another major challenge this year [2020].
“I was just walking along a paved path when a tick bit me,” says TR, a resident of Krasnoyarsk, a regional capital and the 3rd-largest city in Siberia. “They say they are everywhere in
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