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A family outbreak of tick-borne encephalitis involving 7 people, all of them hospitalized, was observed in the district of Považská Bystrica (central Slovakia). The disease was associated with the drinking of unboiled goat milk and tick-borne encephalitis virus was recovered from Ixodes ricinus ticks collected from places where goats were grazing.
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Kohl, O., Kožuch, O., Elečková, E. et al. Family outbreak of alimentary tick-borne encephalitis in Slovakia associated with a natural focus of infection. Eur J Epidemiol 12, 373–375 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00145300
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