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How do I prevent tick-borne viral encephalitis?
Last reviewed: 06.07.2025
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In disease outbreaks, ticks are destroyed by spraying especially dangerous areas with insecticides. Treatment of free-ranging farm animals (cows, goats, sheep) with chlorophos has preventive value. Personal preventive measures include wearing special clothing and applying repellents to the skin, as well as carefully examining clothing and the body to detect ticks after visiting the forest, etc. Milk from goats and cows can only be consumed after boiling.
Active immunization is carried out in foci of infection according to epidemiological indications, as well as for people working with viruses. Vaccination 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, purified, concentrated, inactivated, dry, for children and adults;
- EnceVir is a tick-borne encephalitis vaccine, culture-based, purified, concentrated, inactivated liquid for intramuscular administration;
- FSME-Immun Inject by Baxter AG (Austria);
- FSME-Immun Junior from Baxter AG (Austria);
- Encepur for children from the company "Kyron Bering" (Germany);
- Encepur for children from the company "Kyron Bering" (Germany).
All vaccines are formalin-inactivated tick-borne encephalitis virus obtained by reproduction on chicken embryo cells. Usually, vaccination is administered twice with an interval of 1-3 months with revaccination after 9-12 months. In addition to vaccines, human immunoglobulin against tick-borne encephalitis is used (Russia). Immunoglobulin is administered before a possible tick bite or in the first 96 hours immediately after the tick has attached, once at a dose of 0.1 ml/kg.
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