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From: Economic downturn results in tick-borne disease upsurge

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Recent trends in tick-borne encephalitis cases and unemployment across Europe. A) The number of cases of tick-borne encephalitis in 2009 (solid bars) relative to the mean numbers +/- 1StDev for 2004-2008 (light bars) for the same countries. B) Trends in the annual levels of unemployment (see text for precise metric) from 2004 to 2009 in 14 European countries. (Countries are divided into roughly geo-political groups simply for visual clarity.) DE Germany, AT Austria, CH Switzerland, IT Italy, SI Slovenia, SE Sweden, FI Finland, HU Hungary, CZ Czech Republic, SK Slovakia, PL Poland, LT Lithuania, LV Latvia, EE Estonia.

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