In the early 1920s, reports surfaced concerning a severe form of brain disease in
woodcutters, topographers, road construction workers, and residents of newly founded …

The discovery of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in the Far East of the USSR in 1937 is marked
by investigators' heroism and tragedies--diseases in the members of the expedition and …

Tick-borne encephalitis virus is the etiological agent of a severe human disease transmitted
by hard ticks. It occurs in large parts of eastern, central, and western Asia and in Europe with …

Consideration is given to the opinion of some specialists that the rise in tick-borne
encephalitis (TBE) morbidity at the turn of the century has been accounted for by new …

The incidence of tick-borne encephalitis in the Udmurt Autonomous Republic is among the
highest in the Soviet Union; between 1954 and 1957 the annual number of notified cases …

Tick-borne encephalitis belongs to diseases occurring in natural foci of infection. Pavlovsky
(1939, 1956) defines a natural focus of an infec-tious disease “as a tract of country of a …

Studies on tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in Siberia started 60 years ago. In 1939 Chumakov
firstly isolated TBE virus from ticks collected in Tomsk and Krasnoyarsk provinces (10) …

This is a review and discussion of the results of the investigations carried out by the
expeditions of 1937, 1938 and 1939 on the vectors and reservoirs of the tick-borne, taïga or …

In the 1990s, both in the Far East and other regions of Russia, has intensified the incidence
of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), which reached the 1940-1950s, with widespread worsening …

This article analyzes the history of immunization against tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) and
specifically the processes that led to the creation and application of TBE vaccines in the …