How to prevent tick-borne viral encephalitis?
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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In the foci of the disease, ticks are destroyed by pollination of especially dangerous places with insecticides. The treatment of chlorophos by agricultural animals (cows, goats, sheep) that are free-range is of preventive value. Personal prevention measures include wearing special clothes and smearing the skin with scaring agents, as well as a thorough examination of clothing and body to identify ticks after visiting the forest, etc. Milk of goats and cows can be consumed only after boiling.
Active immunization is carried out in the foci of infection for epidemiological indications, as well as for persons working with viruses. The vaccine against tick-borne encephalitis is used in the form of the following vaccines:
- tick-borne encephalitis vaccine culture purified concentrated inactivated dry for adults;
- tick-borne encephalitis vaccine culture purified concentrated inactivated dry for children and adults;
- EnceVir - tick-borne encephalitis vaccine culture purified concentrated inactivated liquid for intramuscular injection;
- FSME-Immun Inject of Baxter AG (Austria);
- FSME-Immun Junior of Baxter AG (Austria);
- Enzepur children's company "Kayron Bering" (Germany);
- Enzepur children's company "Kairon Bering" (Germany).
All vaccines are formalin-inactivated tick-borne encephalitis virus, obtained by reproduction on chick embryo cells. Usually vaccinated twice with an interval of 1-3 months with a booster at 9-12 months. In addition to vaccines, human immunoglobulin is used against tick-borne encephalitis (Russia). Immunoglobulin is injected before a possible tick bite or in the first 96 hours immediately after sucking the tick once in a dose of 0.1 ml / kg.
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