The tick activity season will begin in the Perm Region at the end of March.

Scientists predict the beginning of the tick activity season in the Perm Region at the end of March. Pests will appear with the early descent of snow and the establishment of warm weather.

According to Ekaterina Bankovskaya, Candidate of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Chemical Technologies at PNRPU, a number of researchers associate the early awakening of ticks with global warming. For example, in the Arkhangelsk region, the average annual temperature has increased from +0.7 degrees in 1960-1989 to +2 degrees currently, while the incidence of tick-borne encephalitis has tripled. This is reported by the news agency " <url>".

In addition, winter heat reduces the severity of the disease. After cold winters, on the contrary, a dangerous strain of the causative agent of the disease follows. The most severe forms of the disease are caused by the Far Eastern encephalitis genotype, which is widespread in the Far East and Siberia. In regions with a mild climate, the European type is common, which is characterized by a milder course of the disease.

Experts call an abnormally snowy winter with frosts another reason for the early awakening of ticks. The pests have successfully overwintered in a layer of fallen leaves and moss under a thick snow cover, so they will quickly come out of hibernation with warming.

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