In 2014, there were more patients in the Netherlands with diseases transmitted by wild rodents than in previous years.

The Netherlands is the first country where the burden of disease due to Lyme disease has been determined.

At the start of the “Tick Awareness Week”, the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) and Wageningen UR are commencing a large-scale study on the long-term effects of

Last year, a man was treated at the Amsterdam Academic Medical Centre (AMC) after being bitten by a tick and becoming infected with a strain of the Borrelia bacterium not previously encountered in