# Doctor recounts illnesses following TBE vaccination

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2068545489683792120
- Source account: [@maikpi70](https://x.com/maikpi70)
- Source language: German
- Target language: English
- Duration: 2:31
- Published: 2026-06-22
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- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/J1WbU5WamUEA/de/arzt-berichtet-von-erkrankungen-nach-fsme-impfungen.md

## Transcript

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/J1WbU5WamUEA/en/doctor-recounts-illnesses-following-tbe-vaccination?t=7) overnight, a disease suddenly appeared that we had only heard of in passing during our studies, namely, tick- borne encephalitis and tick- borne brain disease, right?

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/J1WbU5WamUEA/en/doctor-recounts-illnesses-following-tbe-vaccination?t=17) Up until then, it didn't play any role. This disease suddenly appeared after a vaccine was available.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/J1WbU5WamUEA/en/doctor-recounts-illnesses-following-tbe-vaccination?t=24) And what happened? A group of athletes came to see me and asked for this vaccination because these athletes, as so- called orienteers, as so- called orienteers, were in the forest. In the first years, uh, of TBE, this tick- borne encephalitis,

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/J1WbU5WamUEA/en/doctor-recounts-illnesses-following-tbe-vaccination?t=39) the ticks were considered forest dwellers because it's dark in there.

[0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/J1WbU5WamUEA/en/doctor-recounts-illnesses-following-tbe-vaccination?t=43) It's dark in there, it's night in there, hm? It's dark in there. Years later, we realized that ticks are mostly found in meadows. Anyway, these people came to me and asked me to give them this vaccine. Which I did.

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/J1WbU5WamUEA/en/doctor-recounts-illnesses-following-tbe-vaccination?t=57) Back then, I didn't have much to do with vaccination— well, I did, I vaccinated, my own children too.

[1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/J1WbU5WamUEA/en/doctor-recounts-illnesses-following-tbe-vaccination?t=64) And one of them became acutely ill two hours after I had vaccinated this man.

[1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/J1WbU5WamUEA/en/doctor-recounts-illnesses-following-tbe-vaccination?t=69) His wife called me: He can't move his head, he has terrible pain, he has a high fever. Then I knew it was encephalitis. And I... he lived near me for only a very short time, and I treated him intensively for three days, and I succeeded in getting him healthy again without having

[1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/J1WbU5WamUEA/en/doctor-recounts-illnesses-following-tbe-vaccination?t=86) to send him to the hospital. I was very happy. Months later, I started my small private practice. A mother comes to me: her little boy developed neurodermatitis after this TBE vaccination, after this tick vaccination. Many people know this: a terrible skin rash,

[1:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/J1WbU5WamUEA/en/doctor-recounts-illnesses-following-tbe-vaccination?t=101) terrible suffering. Later, a mother comes: her girl, after a tick vaccination, developed, um, asthma. Well, I was amazed.

[1:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/J1WbU5WamUEA/en/doctor-recounts-illnesses-following-tbe-vaccination?t=113) Then a mother calls, she wants to bring her daughter, a student, to me for treatment, because since the TBE vaccination, a few days later, she has had partial paralysis.

[2:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/J1WbU5WamUEA/en/doctor-recounts-illnesses-following-tbe-vaccination?t=123) And then I promised her, buoyed by my successes, she will come and she will get well again.

[2:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/J1WbU5WamUEA/en/doctor-recounts-illnesses-following-tbe-vaccination?t=130) One day before she was supposed to come— I had an appointment- only practice back then— she calls me: Her daughter can't come, she has died.

[2:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/J1WbU5WamUEA/en/doctor-recounts-illnesses-following-tbe-vaccination?t=140) And after this event, I began to study the topic of vaccination from a historical perspective, especially microbiology, and to begin studying medicine anew.