More tick-bites in Bavaria in 2018: How to recognise Lyme disease and TBE

The good weather could be a reason for the Trend: The number of tick bites caused Lyme disease cases in Bavaria has risen by 40 per cent compared to the previous year. However, as you detect the diseases borreliosis and TBE?

4828 cases of Lyme disease registered by the state office for health and food safety (LGL) in Erlangen to 26. November. In the same period of the previous year, there were only 3394 diseases.

The reporting numbers were 2018 “at a high level,” said a spokesman. “However, we can make currently is still no reliable statement about whether the number is in the range of the expected fluctuations in the moves.”

The reason for the higher number of cases could be the end of good weather this year. If people spend a lot of time Outdoors, and the ticks find at the same time favorable conditions, there are more stitches, and thus more diseases.

And the more animals are infected with Borrelia, the higher is the probability that the bacteria are transmitted when a stitch is. The currently available data give no indications of an increase in the infection of the tick-rates. Up to 35 percent of the animals are infected, according to the LGL with Borrelia.

What is Lyme disease?

Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne infectious disease.

The Symptoms:

• Lyme disease often begins with the so-called wall of dawn – a red Ring that forms around the tick bite and gets larger.
• Muscle and joint pain as well as fever consequences – even weeks after the bite.
• If left untreated, the disease can follow to late, such as joints, heart muscle or nerve inflammation.

Protection Options:

Against the pathogens, there is no vaccination; it antibiotics but help. The probability of Transmission increases the longer the tick is blood sucking. Therefore, the animals should be removed as quickly as possible from the skin.

What TBE is?

Also, in the second of tick-borne disease – the virus infection, TBE the numbers of cases at a high level. Although the season is not finished yet, was recorded by the LGL, the second-highest number of cases since the introduction of the TBE-reporting requirement in the year 2001.

The number of previously counted cases of tick-borne encephalitis remained with 214 on the same level as in the previous year (221 cases). The number varies greatly – the range is from 80 cases in 2002, up to almost 230 cases in the year 2017.

The Symptoms:

• After one to two weeks – like symptoms, fever and headaches, joint and limb pain, fatigue to Nausea to occur in about 30 to 50 percent of the Affected with the flu. If the symptoms last for about a week.
• It is also possible that after one to three weeks, the disease again break out, and serious symptoms of the disease may cause: fever attacks, awareness of limitations, as well as numbness and paralysis.
• TBE skin can be a brain (Meningitis) and meningeal and brain inflammation (meningoencephalitis). Here are the symptoms of dizziness, headache, Nausea, and neck stiffness come to the well-known disease. The disease must be immediately treated since it can be fatal under certain circumstances.
• In particularly severe cases, it can lead to brain inflammation and damage to the spinal cord and paralysis.

Protection Options:

For the treatment of TBE there are no drugs, however, is the inoculation. The risk of Contracting TBE in southern Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hessen) is particularly large.