Kirov is the leader in the number of tick bites

Kirov is the leader in the number of tick bites

      Since the beginning of the "tick season" in the Kirov region, 13 thousand 23 cases of tick bites have been registered, including 2,318 children under the age of 17. The most cases of bites are in the city of Kirov: 4,921. At the same time, according to Rospotrebnadzor in the Kirov region, 51.3% of residents of the regional center were bitten by ticks outside the Kirov City municipal district. Accordingly, almost half of Kirov residents bitten by ticks became victims of bloodsuckers in the city of Kirov.

      Kirovo-Chepetsky district is in the second place of the "tick rating". Since the beginning of the season, 1,201 people have been bitten by ticks. Slobodskoy district is in third place: 776 people were bitten. Residents of the Sanchursky district are least likely to be bitten by ticks: since the beginning of the season, only 24 cases have been registered.

      Since the beginning of the season, 15 cases of tick-borne encephalitis have been reported, including two children under the age of 17. 37 cases of tick-borne borreliosis have also been reported, including in three children under the age of 17. It should be noted that 10 cases of encephalitis and 21 cases of borreliosis were registered in residents of the city of Kirov.According to the Federal Rospotrebnadzor, 2.9 million Russians were vaccinated against tick-borne encephalitis in 2025. Since the beginning of the tick season, more than 223.6 thousand people have complained to medical organizations about tick bites. "The largest number of cases of tick bites was recorded in the Kirov, Kostroma, Tomsk and Chelyabinsk regions, as well as in the Altai Republic and the Udmurt Republic," the federal agency reported.

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Kirov is the leader in the number of tick bites

Since the beginning of the season, 4,921 cases of tick bite have been registered in the city of Kirov: many times more than in any municipality or district of the Kirov region.