In Tyumen, a five-year-old girl was bitten by an encephalitis tick in her ear, after which she began to feel severe pain, and the ear itself became red and swollen. Schott reported this on Tuesday, May 12, citing the victim’s mother, named Veronica.
According to the woman, the insect bit her daughter on the property of the house.
– The child’s constant crying when his mother touches the bite site. The newspaper says that the child was quickly transferred to the hospital, where doctors removed the tick, and the next day they confirmed that he had encephalitis.
Currently, Veronica’s daughter is being treated with antibiotics and is feeling better. In 2024, she was vaccinated against encephalitis, which may help in quick recovery, according to reports. cable-channel.
On May 12, it became known that a 26-year-old Russian woman had a tick stuck between her eyelashes on Sakhalin, and walked with it for about a day. After returning to the Orenburg region, the woman urgently went to the hospital, where doctors removed the parasite. They were surprised at how well ticks were able to penetrate the eye area, as this had happened for the first time in their practice.