Socio-economic factors in the differential upsurge of tick-borne encephalitis in Central and Eastern Europe.
Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), the most serious widespread vector-borne disease of humans in Europe, increased from 2- to 30-fold in many Central and Eastern European countries from 1992 to 1993, coinciding with independence from Soviet rule. Unemployment and low income have been shown in Latvia to...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2008
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