Based on the plan of Saturday events in the Houses of students of SMU, NCJSC on 20.05.23, in the House of Students No. 1, the Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases headed by the head of the department Efendiev I.M. Assistants Kumarbekova A.K., Smailov E.S. organized a round table on the topic “Tick-borne encephalitis”. During the round table, a lecture was demonstrated on the etiology, transmission routes, pathogenesis, clinical signs of the disease, and natural foci of tick-borne encephalitis in East Kazakhstan region. How to protect yourself from tick bites and reduce the possible risk of tick-borne viral encephalitis, how to remove a tick, the basic principles of treatment and about vaccination against tick-borne encephalitis. A total of 15 students took part in the round table.

Tick-borne encephalitis (spring-summer encephalitis, taiga encephalitis, Russian encephalitis, Far Eastern encephalitis, tick-borne encephalomyelitis) is an arbovirus natural focal disease with a transmissible mechanism of transmission of the pathogen, characterized by fever and central nervous system damage. In Kazakhstan, the East Kazakhstan region is endemic for tick-borne encephalitis. 9 territories in East Kazakhstan region: Glubokovsky, Zaisansky, Zyryanovsky, Katon-Karagaysky, Kokpektinsky (Samara region), Ulansky, Shemonaikhinsky districts, the vicinity of the cities of Ridder and Ust-Kamenogorsk are natural hotbeds.[/vc_column_text]