Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Foodborne Tick-Borne Encephalitis, Europe, 1980–2021
Meital Elbaz
, Avi Gadoth, Daniel Shepshelovich, David Shasha, Nir Rudoler, and Yael Paran
Author affiliations: Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel (M. Elbaz, A. Godath, D. Shepshelovich, D. Sasha, Y. Paran); Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv (A. Godath, D. Shepshelovich, D. Sasha, Y. Paran); Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (N. Rudoler); Ministry of Health, Tel Aviv (N. Rudoler)
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Figure 1. Geographic distribution of reported foodborne tick-borne encephalitis (FB-TBE) cases (blue shading), Europe, 1980–2021. A) The FB-TBE triangle in Europe. Russia had 5 cases in 1991 (not shown). Map created by using MapChart (https://mapchart.net). B) The tick-borne encephalitis belt, spanning from western Europe, across Russia, China, and Mongolia to Japan. Map from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (https://www.cdc.gov/tick-borne-encephalitis/geographic-distribution/index.html).
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