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Table 4 knowledge of the community members and professional respondents towards anthrax symptoms, transmission routes and control/prevention methods in animals

From: Knowledge, attitude and practice towards anthrax in northern Ethiopia: a mixed approach study

 

Professionals

Community

Variable

Frequency (n = 62)

%

Frequency (n = 800)

%

Number who did not knew anthrax symptoms (n/%)

16

25.8

590

73.8

Number who knew anthrax symptoms (n/%)

46

74.2

210

26.3

Sudden death

33

53.2

115

14.4

Un-clotted dark red blood

26

41.9

32

3

Bleeding from natural orifices

29

46.8

24

4

Incomplete rigor mortis

17

27.4

14

1.8

Other (swelling, wound, pain, fatigue, etc)

8a

12.9a

78

9.8

Number who did not knew anthrax transmission (n/%)

13

21

630

78.8

Number who knew anthrax transmission (n/%)

49

79

170

21.3

Ingesting of blood contaminated grass

33

53.2

104

13

Drinking contaminated water

30

48.4

76

9.5

Licking anthrax dead bones

24

38.7

33

4.1

Through contaminated soil

35

56.5

67

8.4

Believe its transmission but did not tell the method

7

11.3

  

Other (inhalation, contact)

–

–

7

0.9

Number who did not knew anthrax control/prevention methods (n/%)

13

21

453

56.6

Number who knew anthrax control/prevention methods (n/%)

49

79

347

43.4

Isolate/separate anthrax infected animals

33

53.2

61

7.6

Avoid with anthrax infected people

–

–

37

4.6

Burn all suspected anthrax animal carcasses

27

43.6

33

4.1

Bury all suspected anthrax carcasses

32

51.6

22

2.8

Vaccinate animals

42

67.7

1

0.1

Bury and burn all suspected anthrax carcasses

22

35.5

1

0.1

Using Traditional medicine

–

 

36

4.5

  1. aswelling, black wound, diarrhoea, bloat