Family outbreak of alimentary tick-borne encephalitis in Slovakia associated with a natural focus of infection
- PMID: 8891541
- DOI: 10.1007/BF00145300
Family outbreak of alimentary tick-borne encephalitis in Slovakia associated with a natural focus of infection
Abstract
A family outbreak of tick-borne encephalitis involving 7 people, all of them hospitalized, was observed in the district of Povazská Bystrica (central Slovakia). The disease was associated with the drinking of unboiled goat milk and tick-borne encephalitis virus was recovered from Ixodes ricinus ticks collected from places where goats were grazing.