Autochthonous Cases of Tick-Borne Encephalitis, Belgium, 2020

• DOI: 10.3201/eid2708.211175
• Publication Date: 2021-08-02T14:34:52Z
• Authors: Anke Stoefs; Leo Heyndrickx; Jonathan De Winter; Evelien Coeckelbergh; Barbara Willekens; Alicia Alonso-Jim...; Anne-Marie Tuttino; Yvette Geerts; Kevin K. Ariën; Marjan Van Esbroeck
• Keywords: arbovirus infections; Travel; Encephalitis, Tick-Borne/diagnosis; central nervous system viral diseases; tick-borne encephalitis; encephalitis; vector-borne infections; R; Dispatch; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Encephalitis Viruses, Tick-Borne; 3. Good health; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Belgium; arboviruses; Medicine; Humans; Human medicine; Belgium/epidemiology; Encephalitis, Tick-Borne

We report 3 confirmed autochthonous tick-borne encephalitis cases in Belgium diagnosed during summer 2020. Clinicians should include this viral infection in the differential diagnosis for patients with etiologically unexplained neurologic manifestations, even for persons without recent travel history.