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Chapter 12b: TBE in Denmark
2010) and 96 hospitalized encephalitis Tokkekøb microfocus were negative for TBEV.
patients after tick bites (2007–2009) who were Yearly flaggings will continue, but we believe
negative for Borrelia all tested negative for that the activity of the Tokkekøb microfocus
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TBE antibodies. This supports a limited TBEV has ended. All this changed by the hot
introduction into the new microfocus. summer in 2018 where 3 cases of TBE
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Serological testing of roe deer ‘sentinels’ and occurred, of which two were infected outside
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computer predictions suggest TBEV outside Bornholm: in Jutland (north of Esbjerg) and
Bornholm. But no other TBE cases have Fuen (near Faaborg), respectively. Moreover,
occurred in Denmark outside Bornholm from the TBE disease of one of these was atypical,
2009-2017, and recent flaggings for ticks showing meningoradiculitis rather than
(Sept., Oct. 2016 and June, July 2017) from the encephalitis.
Photograph: TBEV microfocus between the forest worker’s house and a lake, Tokkekøb Hegn, North Zealand,
Denmark
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