Regarding recent TBE activity in Altai and Omsk, a total of 26 human zoonoses are transmitted by ticks. Thirteen of these occur in Russia: [1]

Anaplasmosis
Astrakhan fever
Babesiosis
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
Japanese spotted fever
Lyme disease
North Asian tick typhus
Omsk hemorrhagic fever
Powassan
Relapsing fever
Rickettsial Spotted fevers (ie, Rickettsia slovaca infection)
Tick-borne encephalitis
Tularemia

References:
1. Berger SA. Infectious Diseases of the Russian Federation. 2010, Gideon e-book series, 461 pp. http://www.gideononline.com/ebooks/country/infectious-diseases-of-the-russian-federation/

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