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Climate change will affect many areas of our lives in the coming years. This also applies to the spread of infectious diseases and vectors. Both science and the public health service will be required in addressing these future challenges. For this reason, the German Research Platform for Zoonoses, together with the Academy of Public Health in Düsseldorf , is hosting a workshop series on "Climate Change and Zoonoses." In the first part Prof. Carl Beierkuhnlein (University of Bayreuth) and Prof. René Gottschalk (Public Health Department Frankfurt a.M.) adressed in their talks the question what

Actually, walks in the fresh air in nature are something good and especially in the lockdown many people have rediscovered taking a walk for themselves. Unfortunately, however, ticks also lurk in nature, which can act as carriers of Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE). In 2020, the number of reported TBE cases in Germany was higher than ever before. Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is a tick-borne disease that causes no or mild symptoms in most people (about 70 to 95%). However, some may experience neurological manifestations of TBE (meningitis, encephalitis, myelitis). In these rare severe courses