Publication at Second Faculty of Medicine |
2022
Abstract
Tick-borne meningoencephalitis remains an underestimated preventable disease in the Czech Republic. A third of our population is currently vaccinated, but only a quarter of the elderly.
At the age of over 50, the risk of a severe course associated with permanent consequences, encephalomyelitic and bulbar forms of infection, increases significantly. The brief report presents a case report of the bulbar form of tick-borne meningoencephalitis in an unvaccinated man who could have been protected by a fully reimbursed vaccination based on age.