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According to television Lietuvos Rytas, the sister of the late 48-year-old man had no health problems, he liked to go to the forest to pick mushrooms and berries.
Later, as the man’s sister told reporters, the temperature in Panevėžys increased and he began to have a severe headache. After being taken to the hospital, the man was diagnosed with tick-borne encephalitis and was placed on resuscitation. According to doctors, this case of the disease was extremely serious.
According to Delfi, 6 people died of tick-borne encephalitis in Lithuania in 2019 and 2 in 2018.
Every year in Lithuania, 300-600 people get tick-borne encephalitis, generally 1-3 die each year.
The mortality from this disease is 0.5-4%.
The most common residual events are inability to concentrate, sleep disturbances, persistent headaches, hypersensitivity, behavioral changes. Uncommon: paresis.
Incidence of tick-borne encephalitis, according to ULAC data
© Rimas Pocius
What is tick-borne encephalitis?
Tick-borne encephalitis is a natural severe focal viral disease caused by the tick-borne encephalitis virus, which damages the brain, its sheaths, or peripheral nerves. EE is one of the most important viral infections of the human central nervous system, characterized by residual phenomena that sometimes lead to disability.
Tick-borne encephalitis can be contracted by ingesting a tick or by consuming raw milk or its products. When the milk is boiled, the infection dies within 2 minutes, when it is exposed to a temperature of 70ºC, in 5 minutes.
Symptoms of tick-borne encephalitis
According to the page of the Center for Communicable Diseases and AIDS (ULAC), the incubation period lasts from 2 to 28 days, with an average of 7 to 14 days. About 80 percent. In cases, the course of the disease is twofold. The symptoms of the first phase of the disease, which lasts from 1 to 8 days, are caused by the first wave of viremia. Its symptoms are nonspecific: fever, bones, muscles, headache, fatigue, general weakness, less frequently dyspeptic or upper respiratory catarrh.
The first stage of EE is followed by an apparent recovery period that lasts from 1 to 33 days, generally 5 to 8 days.
During the second phase of the disease, 20-30 percent develops. In infected individuals, symptoms of damage to the central nervous system and inflammatory changes in the cerebrospinal fluid are identified. About a third of people with tick-borne encephalitis do not fully recover. The most common residual events are inability to concentrate, sleep disturbances, persistent headaches, hypersensitivity, behavioral changes. Less common: paralysis.
A person receives treatment only symptomatically, with drugs that reduce the symptoms of the disease. There is no specific treatment for the pathogen. People who get tick-borne encephalitis gain immunity to the disease.
Vaccines are the most effective preventive measure.
Treatment
A person receives treatment only symptomatically, with drugs that reduce the symptoms of the disease. There is no specific treatment for the pathogen. People who develop EE acquire immunity to the disease.
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