More and new pathogens, increasing food infections and stronger antibiotic resistance: climate change can make communicable diseases more threatening. What Germany has to adjust to.
On the risk map for tick-borne encephalitis in the south, it might be easier to reverse the colors. Because practically all of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg are on the map of the Robert Koch Institute Dipped in blue and thus designated as a risk area for TBE, you have to look for the white swabs with a magnifying glass. In Bavaria, only Schweinfurt and Augsburg, in Baden-Württemberg only Heilbronn are no risk areas for the infectious disease transmitted by ticks.