Seasonal tick activity in the Nizhny Novgorod Region has declined.

      26 September 2025 12:53 Society. In the Nizhny Novgorod Region, seasonal tick activity continues, but the number of reports of bites has declined in recent weeks, the regional office of Rospotrebnadzor reports.

      Since monitoring began on 3 March 2025, 9,721 visits to medical facilities due to tick attachment have been registered, of which 2,835 involved children.

      Since the start of the season, 10,848 ticks have been laboratory-tested. Of these, 18% were found to be infected: 0.3% with the tick-borne encephalitis virus, 15.4% with borrelia, 2% with anaplasma, and 0.3% with ehrlichia. The tick-borne encephalitis virus was detected in 29 ticks collected in 10 municipalities of the region.

      To date, 7 cases of tick-borne encephalitis have been confirmed, 4 of them following bites that occurred in the Nizhny Novgorod Region. Also, 143 cases of borreliosis have been registered, including 8 in children.

      A total of 11,672 people, including 1,588 children, have been vaccinated against tick-borne encephalitis.

      The agency added that the second period of tick activity usually lasts until October.

      Earlier, an infectious disease physician warned Nizhny Novgorod residents about the danger of granulocytic anaplasmosis — a disease transmitted through tick bites that has symptoms similar to the flu.

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