In Siberia was found a new species of tick is a hybrid of the taiga tick and the tick Pavlovsky, who usually lives in the far East and Altai.
most such mites discovered in the Novosibirsk region, writes the newspaper “Science in Siberia”. They are more dangerous to humans than the existing, and widely distributed.
Scientists from the Novosibirsk Institute of chemical biology and fundamental medicine, found that a new tick carries the disease, which is characteristic of both parental types of mites. Among them tick — borne encephalitis virus, different types of Borrelia, rickettsiae, Herlihy, ooplasm, as well as of Babesia that affect dogs.
Tomsk scientists came to the conclusion that such hybrids can become sources of emergence of new strains of tick-borne infections, against which existing vaccines will not act. A new species of mites are very prolific and can begin to displace the parent species.