Ticks are becoming active again: These districts and cities in Hesse are risk areas

Created: 03/30/2022, 15:38

By: Samira Mueller

Due to the spring-like temperatures, there are more ticks again.

In Hesse, ten cities and districts are considered risk areas.

Bad Nauheim – The temperatures are getting milder and the ticks in Hesse are becoming active again.

The Robert Koch Institute has classified ten cities and districts across the country as a risk area for infection with TBE (tick-borne encephalitis), as reported by fnp.de*.

TBE is an inflammation of the brain, meninges or spinal cord.

This can be transmitted by viruses after a tick bite.

Ticks in Hesse: Ten districts and cities count as a risk area

The eastern and south-eastern districts as well as the district of Marburg-Biedenkopf are particularly affected, as the Hessian state hunting association announced on Wednesday (03/30/2022).

These are the tick risk areas in Hesse:

• District of Marburg-Biedenkopf

• Odenwald district

• Main-Kinzig district

• Offenbach

• Darmstadt

• District of Fulda

• district of Offenbach

• District of Darmstadt-Dieburg

• District of Gross-Gerau

• Bergstrasse district

Vaccination against TBE is recommended for all people who are in or live in a risk area and could be bitten by ticks.

Lyme disease can also be transmitted by ticks.

However, there is no vaccination against it.

The ticks are becoming active again in Hesse: some cities and districts count as risk areas (symbolic photo).

© Patrick Pleul/dpa

Last year the number of TBE cases was particularly high*.

In addition, few people in Hesse have been vaccinated against the disease.

(Samira Müller with dpa)