Autochthonous Cases of Tick-Borne Encephalitis, Belgium, 2020

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• central nervous system viral diseases
• vector-borne infections
• tick-borne encephalitis
• arbovirus infections
• encephalitis
• arboviruses