Each year, 1.5 million people in the Netherlands are bitten by a tick. This is an increase of 30% compared to 2010, which show, on Monday, the research of the national Institute for public Health and the Environment (RIVM).
The number of bitten individuals, it is likely to have increased due to the growth in the number of ticks in the Netherlands. This is mainly due to the increase of the temperature.
In 1996, 600,000 to people bitten by a tick. In 2007, this number had increased to over 1.1 million.
Most of the people being bitten during the months of June and July. Half of all the reports that each year, at the web site Tekenradar.nl entry will be in two months.
A tick bite can cause Lyme disease
Character, then, are by nature very active, and many of the fellow-countrymen of recreation in this period of time in the natural world. There is a fear that the number of bitten persons, and this year is even bigger, because a lot of people due to the coronacrisis not have to go abroad.
A tick bite can cause Lyme disease, an infectious disease that affects the nervous system. In total, only 2 percent of the bitten people will become ill. It’s on a yearly basis to more than 27,000 people. A lot of the problems with antibiotics to fix the problem. Between 1,000 and 2,500 people in permanent symptoms about the site of the bite.
The more insects, causing additional inconvenience due to the heat
Anyone bitten by a tick, the advice is to remove it using a tick remover, and the wound is three months a long time to keep an eye on.
The tick does not appear to be the only insect that is more of a nuisance caused by the higher temperatures. The biologists said earlier this year, sounding the alarm, because of the mediterranean draaigatje, exotic harassing minor. The number of colonies has been, in the last few months has more than doubled.
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