Health Alerts

The warm weather has arrived and it’s tick season. Health authorities in the region of Rostov have confirmed cases of tick-borne Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, borreliosis and tularemia, and some 20 years after Q fever was last detected in Salsky and Remontnensky districts, 19 people have been diagnosed with the infection. Meanwhile in the Urals, the rates of tick bites in the population of Sverdlovsk Oblast have soared, estimated at one in every 100 people this season and cases of tick-borne encephalitis are reported to be 50 percent higher than for the same period in 2021. Read more