2023-08-20 09:11:00
Friends walkers, mushroom pickers, campers, sportsmen and workers in the Haute-Savoie natural areas, beware of tick bites! “The Auvergne Rhône Alpes region is now an important area for the circulation of the tick-borne encephalitis virus” and Haute-Savoie is the department most affected by the phenomenon. This is what the Regional Health Agency (ARS) Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (ARA) announces after two years of study between May 2021 and May 2023.
“It is a worrying situation that requires a certain vigilance. Seventy-one cases of tick-borne encephalitis have been identified in mainland France over the past two years, including 27 in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, explains Anne-Sophie Ronnaux-Baron, doctor in charge of the health monitoring center at the ARS of the ARA. We are launching an awareness campaign “the tick attacks” especially in Haute-Savoie, a department which alone accounts for more than half of the cases detected in the region (14 out of 27…
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