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In this month’s Science Journal we talk to the Czech psychologists who
monitored the participants in the Mars 500 experiment, and also to the
discoverers of a hitherto unknown, tick-borne disease. More
Current AffairsOutdoor goers warned to take extra caution during tick season
Czech outdoors lovers have been warned to brace for the coming peak in tick
season at the end of June/early July, a little later than usual after this
year’s long winter. Like in previous years, there is a risk from ticks
carrying the potentially deadly infection encephalitis, and as many as one
in five can carry the bacterial infection borreliosis or Lyme disease. In
2009, more than 4,000 Czechs were infected with the latter, a disease which
can have a long-term negative impact on health if not detected and treated
quickly. As a result, specialists have said that anyone heading to the
forests or parks in the coming days should take care.
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Current AffairsCzech scientists announce discovery in battle against ticks
Scientists in the Czech city of České Budějovice say they have
discovered a protein that may reduce the appetite of ticks for human blood.
Ticks have become an increasing problem in the summer months, and can carry
Lyme’s disease as well as encephalitis, both of which can prove very
dangerous to human health. Dominik Jůn has the story:
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Current AffairsNumber of ticks and tick-transmitted infections on the rise in Czech Republic
Every summer, a ghastly image of an enlarged tick appears in the papers all
over the Czech Republic, warning people against the dangers of these small,
blood-sucking insects. The incidence of ticks in the Czech Republic has
been on the rise in recent years and with their heightened number, the
incidence of tick-transmitted infections - Lyme disease and tick-borne
encephalitis - is increasing as well.
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Current AffairsTick-borne encephalitis cases rise sharply in Czech Republic
Specialists have revealed that there was a sharp rise in the incidence in
tick-borne encephalitis, or TBE, in the Czech Republic last year. Some
1000 people contracted the potentially deadly disease which is transmitted
by deer ticks: 60 percent more than in 2005. Earlier Jan Velinger spoke to
Roman Prymula, the dean of the Military Medical Academy at the University
of Defence in Hradec Kralove, and asked him about the reasons behind the
sudden jump. More
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