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It started melting
Last weekend was very sad for Ernestas de Panevėžys. He learned that his stepfather, Vladas, a forest worker, had been treated for a week at the Panevėžys Republican Hospital. And man was not immersed in it by a fallen tree or a dangerous saw blade, but by an apparently small animal: a mite.
The 48-year-old patient soon fell into the hands of doctors a week ago when he suddenly felt ill one morning. The man began to feel his feet little by little. The numbness in his body expanded until Vlad could no longer lift even his hands. Initially, a patient taken to the hospital by ambulance was suspected of having a stroke.
But after a couple of days, he was no longer able to make the phone, his fingers and hands were melted. It turned out that Vlad had tick-borne encephalitis. Finally he fell into a coma.
According to the stepson, the stepfather had been working in the woods for a long time, went to massive woods in the spring, and often said that he really liked ticks – he had soaked at least 16 in just those few months.
“At first, I was just suffering from the disease and that numbness of the extremities. I don’t know the details of what happened later in the hospital, because the patients cannot be visited during the quarantine. Now we are waiting for what will happen next, until now it is in a deep coma, “said Ernest.
The number of cases is increasing.
According to the Center for Communicable Diseases and AIDS, 2-3 people die from tick-borne encephalitis each year. 2019 Six of these cases were reported in 2006, with an average age of 72 years, all of which were not vaccinated.
Lyme and tick-borne encephalitis are even more common this year.
“It is not known what caused the warm start of spring or quarantine, during which people walked more in the wild, but individual cases of the diseases mentioned in the past five months are certainly more than at the same time of year. past”.
Lyme disease has already been diagnosed in 20 residents of the Panevėžys region this year, last year – 16. 4 people were infected with tick-borne encephalitis in April and May, and last year there was no such case for the entire spring, “said the Department of Infectious Diseases of Panevėžys Head of the Department Dovilė Brajinskienė.
The earliest tick-borne illnesses caused by Lyme disease in the county were recorded in January and February of this year. True, they could have sneaked away and the insect bitten in the fall.
“The population of these creatures is highly dependent on the warm autumn, the warm spring. As the natural conditions are now particularly favorable for ticks, they are on the rise. And the Panevėžys region is covered with forests, there are many deciduous trees Here, we are the county with the highest number of tick-borne diseases, “emphasizes D. Brajinskienė.
“The tick no longer needs a tree or a bush, it has enough grass and a living creature.”
D. Brajinskienė
Last year, he conducted a survey in the city of Panevėžys to determine if ticks breed here. Within three days, the manager found carriers of these diseases in Skaistakalnis Park, on the shore of the Ekranas Lagoon bathing area, and even on the grass on Parko Street.
“It shows that the mite no longer needs a tree or a bush, it has enough grass and a living creature.” These insects are carried by birds, mice, and dogs. Now they are hungry and looting, ”says the host.
According to her, the actual statistics of this year’s tick-borne diseases may be clarified in the future, because during the quarantine, until it was more difficult to reach the doctors, perhaps some did not resort to them even if they felt strange.
Sad record
According to the NVSC, tick-borne diseases in Lithuania (tick-borne encephalitis and Lyme disease) affect about 3,000 people each year. Last year, the highest incidence of tick-borne diseases was recorded in Lithuania. However, a comparison of preliminary data for the first five months of this year shows that there are even more patients this year.
2019 In January – May, 33 cases of tick-borne encephalitis and 245 cases of Lyme disease were recorded, this year there were more than 50 cases of tick-borne encephalitis and more than 300 cases of Lyme disease.
The highest incidence of tick-borne diseases is observed in 40-80 years. age group, a third of all cases are retired and unemployed.
NVSC spokeswoman Austina Vžesniauskaitė said Lithuania is clearly different from Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis in Europe.
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