Comment by throwaway2037
4 years ago
Nice anecdata to share from Poland! I did not know that Lyme disease also exists in Europe. Related: Does Poland vaccinate for TCE (tick-borne encephalitis)?
4 years ago
Nice anecdata to share from Poland! I did not know that Lyme disease also exists in Europe. Related: Does Poland vaccinate for TCE (tick-borne encephalitis)?
>> Related: Does Poland vaccinate for TCE (tick-borne encephalitis)?
I would say yes, but only on case by case basis - it's recommended for people who work around and in forests (forest rangers, holiday camp caretakers etc.).
I believe TCE is far more rare so the vaccine is not so important for regular people as vaccine for lyme would be (if I read stats correctly there is two orders of magnitude difference between them - 200 cases per year for TCE versus 20000 for lyme)
Wow 20 000 per year for lyme is a lot. Are these ticks everywhere in Poland?
The rule is if you are anywhere near high grass you can bet you can find ticks there. My parents have a quite large garden with private forest (2,5 acres or 1 hectare of fenced terrain) and there is no week in summer where cat would not come back with big tick attached to it. There were two separate occasions where one of their dogs almost died from fewer after tick bite (and we are talking about dog that have every conceivable tick preventive measure applied)
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> I did not know that Lyme disease also exists in Europe.
I guess it exists anywhere the ticks do.
> Does Poland vaccinate for TCE (tick-borne encephalitis)?
Not obligatorily, AFIK. But I, personally, got my vaccine some years ago.