Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is an endemic disease in some regions of northern China. The first TBE patients were reported in 1943 and TBE virus (TBEV) was isolated from brain tissues of two patients in 1944 by Japanese military scientists1 as well as from patients and ticks (I. persulcatus and Haemaphysalis concinna) in 1952 by Chinese researchers.2
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