Inhabitant of the Novosibirsk region has died after tick bite

In the Novosibirsk region the woman died from tick — borne encephalitis about this today, 29 June, said Deputy Minister of health of the region Elena Aksenova.

— sorry, 24th of June was the fatal outcome of tick-borne encephalitis. It’s a woman, 64 years old, were not vaccinated against tick-borne encephalitis virus, the tick is not investigated, — said Aksenov at the meeting.

the Deputy Minister said that the condition of the patient worsened due to severe comorbidity.

last year, the NHS told the story of the student of Sunatullo Zabirova. The teenager was walking through the woods near the Key-kamyshenskogo plateau in Novosibirsk, where he crawled up a tick. Despite the fact that a bite was not, the boy contracted encephalitis and fell into a coma.