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“A tick bite changed my life”: Welsh woman was in coma for six weeks after Syros holiday

Victoria Stellas contracted tick-borne encephalitis while visiting relatives near Syros, leaving her with permanent memory loss and nightly seizures; she now takes up to eighteen pills daily and campaigns to raise vaccine awareness among students

Brain-damaging infectious disease spread by ticks reaches UK for first time

The tick-borne encephalitis virus is already present in mainland Europe and parts of Asia