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Hyalomma tick: So dangerous is the huge tick

  • Sep 22, 2025
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The Hyalomma tick, so far, mainly in the warmer regions of the home, will always be discovered more frequently in Germany. We explain what the consequences can have a bite of this parasite.

Driven by the Hyalomma tick

That ticks can transmit diseases, is also used for the local copies, nothing New. Apparently you have a bite of the Hyalomma tick is also no TBE or Lyme disease to worry about. Instead, the tick transmits the following pathogens:

  • The most common pathogens, the Hyalomma transmits tick, the Virus, the Crimean-Congo fever.
  • The symptoms of the disease occur very suddenly: fever, chills, body aches, and Nausea. Furthermore, a water accumulation (Edema) occurs very frequently in the face.
  • In some patients, a hemorrhagic form of the fever after a few days: intestinal bleeding and vomiting of Blood, accompany the previous symptoms, and can lead to death.
  • Since the course of the disease can make different, also specify the mortality difficult. In hemorrhagic form up to 50 percent of patients die.
  • A disease is in Germany compulsorily notifiable.

How to identify the tick species

The Hyalomma tick was spotted in the year 2017, eight Times, and in 2018 already over 30 Times in Germany. Parasitologists to explain this, especially through the dry, hot summer, which is an ideal climate for the Hyalomma tick, which were to be found until a few years ago, especially to the South of the Balkans and in some regions of Asia and by migratory birds were introduced. So you recognize the Hylomma-tick:

  • In the case of ticks, you should always be careful. Have you been in the Free search then.
  • The Hyalomma tick is up to five times as large as the well-known representatives of the domestic ticks.
  • The main recognition feature is the striped legs: A dark brown and White alternate.
The main detection features of the Hyalomma tick species, their size in comparison to other Ticks and the striped drawing your legs
(Image: Focus Online/University Of Hohenheim)

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