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VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES Volume 8, Number 5, 2008 © Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2008.0028 Review Tick-Borne Encephalitis in Mainland China ZHI LU,1 MICHAEL BRÖKER,2 AND GUODONG LIANG1 ABSTRACT Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus is one of the most important flavivirus infections of the central nervous sys- tem in Europe and Russia, with 12,000 estimated human cases per year. At present, epidemiology is extensively analyzed in many regions of Europe and Russia, with less activity in east and southeast Asia. For China, surveil- lance on TBE is not institutionalized, and data are incomplete and not appropriately communicated. This review summarizes the current knowledge on TBE in China and shows that foci of the virus are mostly located in the northern part of China. Key Words: Epidemiology––Tick-borne encephalitis INTRODUCTION Surveillance in Europe on TBE is imple- mented in many countries and updates of new ICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS (TBE) IS AN acute epidemiologic data are regularly made public Tinfectious neurologic disease caused by (Bröker and Gniel 2003; Süss 2003, 2005). TBE virus (TBEV). Annually, more than Therefore, appropriate risk assessment for 10,000 TBE cases are officially recorded in en- persons living in or traveling to TBE-endemic demic regions in Europe and Asia, especially countries in Europe can be considered satis- in Russia. According to the classification factory at least for central and northern Eu- scheme of the International Committee for rope, although