As someone living in an area with lots of Lyme disease and tick borne encephalitis I recommend everyone in the same boat to get a vaccine for TBE. It's not expe

As someone living in an area with lots of Lyme disease and tick borne encephalitis I recommend everyone in the same boat to get a vaccine for TBE. It's not expensive and it can save your life. At least with Lyme, if you notice it you can get pretty good treatment. There is no specific treatment for TBE. You're either lucky or you end up disabled for life or dead. Also, there are over the counter blood tests for Lyme. I buy one at least once a year just in case. Finally, let me comment on the practice of "tick testing". Many people (including myself) want to send their ticks for testing to various labs that claim "24h results" and modern methods. Unfortunately such testing is a bit pointless, because most ticks in endemic areas are infected and still one can get lots of infected ticks and be fine if they are removed quickly.