You can get tick-borne encephalitis without a tick bite if you don’t boil the milk or crush the insect with your hands. This was stated by the head of the Rospotrebnadzor department in the Kaliningrad region Elena Babura.
The main mechanism of transmission of pathogens transmitted by oxo ticks is through sucking of infected ticks. However, the dietary route is also possible when using raw milk – goat, and less often cow and sheep. The virus enters the drink if the animal is bitten by a tick. The danger is not limited only to milk, but also to dairy products that have not undergone heat treatment, according to RIA Novosti.
According to the specialist, there are other ways to contract tick-borne infections. Therefore, you can become infected if you crush an infected tick or scratch its bite.
“In this case, the probability of infection will depend on the amount of infectious agent present in the insect,” Babura noted in an interview. an agency.
The possibility of the appearance in Moscow of ticks of the genus Hyalomma, whose usual habitats have moved to the southern regions of the Russian Federation, is still a matter of debate among experts. This was stated by Vladimir Pinaev, Candidate of Environmental Sciences and Associate Professor at the Institute of Ecology at RUDN University.