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What is Tick-borne diseases?
What is Tick-borne diseases?
- Tick-borne diseases: Any disease that is transferred to humans by the tick.
- Tick-borne diseases: blood sucking acarid parasites of the order Ixodida comprising two families: the softbacked ticks (Argasidae) and hardbacked ticks (Ixodidae); ticks are larger than their relatives, the mites; they penetrate the skin of their host by means of highly specialized, hooked mouth parts and feed on its blood; ticks attack all groups of terrestrial vertebrates; in humans they are responsible for many diseases, including the transmission of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia, babesiosis, African swine fever and relapsing fever.
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Name and Aliases of Tick-borne diseases
Main name of condition: Tick-borne diseases
Other names or spellings for Tick-borne diseases:Types of Tick-borne diseases:
Subtypes of Tick-borne diseases:
Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Scrub typhus, Ehrlichiosis, Babesiosis, Lyme disease, Relapsing fever, Colorado tick fever, Rocky mountain spotted fever, Typhus, Tick typhus, STARI, Tick paralysis, Flavivirus
Parent types of Tick-borne diseases:
Zoonotic Diseases, Insect-borne diseases
How serious is Tick-borne diseases?
Complications of Tick-borne diseases:
see
complications of Tick-borne diseases
What causes Tick-borne diseases?
Cause of Tick-borne diseases: Tick bites spread infection.
Causes of Tick-borne diseases:
see
causes of Tick-borne diseases
Risk factors for Tick-borne diseases:
see
risk factors for Tick-borne diseases
How is it treated?
Treatments for Tick-borne diseases:
see treatments for Tick-borne diseases
Prevention of Tick-borne diseases:
see prevention of Tick-borne diseases
Research for Tick-borne diseases:
see research for Tick-borne diseases
Society issues for Tick-borne diseases
Hospitalization statistics for Tick-borne diseases:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Tick-borne diseases:
- 0.0006% (72) of hospital episodes were for arthropod-borne viral fevers and viral haemorrhagic fevers in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 90% of hospital consultations for arthropod-borne viral fevers and viral haemorrhagic fevers required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 60% of hospital episodes for arthropod-borne viral fevers and viral haemorrhagic fevers were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 40% of hospital episodes for arthropod-borne viral fevers and viral haemorrhagic fevers were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 98% of hospital admissions for arthropod-borne viral fevers and viral haemorrhagic fevers required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 4 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for arthropod-borne viral fevers and viral haemorrhagic fevers in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 4 days was the median length of stay in hospitals for arthropod-borne viral fevers and viral haemorrhagic fevers in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 31 was the mean age of patients hospitalised for arthropod-borne viral fevers and viral haemorrhagic fevers in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 92% of hospitalisations for arthropod-borne viral fevers and viral haemorrhagic fevers occurred in 15-59 year olds in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 3% of hospitalisations for arthropod-borne viral fevers and viral haemorrhagic fevers occurred in people over 75 in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 0% of hospitalisations for arthropod-borne viral fevers and viral haemorrhagic fevers were single day episodes in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 0.0005% (256) of hospital bed days were for arthropod-borne viral fevers and viral haemorrhagic fevers in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 0% (5) of hospital consultant episodes were for tick-borne viral encephalitis in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 80% of hospital consultant episodes for tick-borne viral encephalitis required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 40% of hospital consultant episodes for tick-borne viral encephalitis were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 60% of hospital consultant episodes for tick-borne viral encephalitis were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 25% of hospital consultant episodes for tick-borne viral encephalitis required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 5 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for tick-borne viral encephalitis in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 4 days was the median length of stay in hospitals for tick-borne viral encephalitis in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 33 was the mean age of patients hospitalised for tick-borne viral encephalitis in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 60% of hospital consultant episodes for tick-borne viral encephalitis occurred in 15-59 year olds in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 0% of hospital consultant episodes for tick-borne viral encephalitis occurred in people over 75 in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 0% of hospital consultant episodes for tick-borne viral encephalitis were single day episodes in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 0% (20) of hospital bed days were for tick-borne viral encephalitis in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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