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Chapter 12b

TBE in Bosnia and

Herzegovina

Wilhelm Erber and Tamara Vuković Janković

History and Current Situation

Very limited information is available for Bosnia The only official TBE case report data so far
showing the occurrence of TBE. 7 are from the Centralized Information System
for Infectious Diseases ((CISID) – WHO:
Even though there have been some elder case incidence of tick-borne encephalitis) where 1
reports in the northern parts of the country, case was reported in 2001, and 2 cases were
including alimentary infections, details have reported in in 20106, and additionally 5 cases
3
not been published. of alimentary outbreak were reported in 2014
by the Institute of Public Health in Serbia
In early 1996 United States military forces (Institute of Public Health FBIH https://
were deployed to Bosnia as part of Operation
www.zzjzfbih.ba/biblioteka/) [Accessed: Oct,
Joint Endeavor. Only 4 (0.42%) unvaccinated
2016].
individuals, all males, demonstrated a 4-fold
seroconversion. All 4 seemingly were infected However, proven record about the spread of
with TBE virus (or a closely-related variant) the TBE virus in Bosnia and Herzegovina is the
during their 6–9-month deployment period in isolation of five strains of the TBEV-Sib
Bosnia, but did not report with symptoms to genotype 3 in Ixodes ricinus.
1,2
any health care provider. 2,4,5

Figure 1: Burden of TBE in Bosnia and Herzegovina over time 2,4,5,6

Latest raw data can be found at https://id-ea.org/tbe/tbe12b4/#data1

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