Table 3 Contact with pigs or wild animals and/or their meat products as perceived risk factor for the EVD in the agro-pastoral community
Variable | Attribute | Presence of Ebola | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
With case (%) | With no cases (%) | Correlation coefficient | p-value | ||
Bush meat consumption | Yes | 4 (1.7) | 111 (48.5) | −0.005 | 0.933 |
No | 4 (1.7) | 110 (48.0) | |||
Consumption of Pork | Yes | 7 (3.1) | 92 (40.2) | 0.105 | 0.11 |
No | 1 (0.44) | 129 (56.3) | |||
Monkey meat consumption | Yes | 7 (3.1) | 142 (62.0) | 0.059 | 0.37 |
No | 1 (0.44) | 79 (34.5) | |||
Eating Bats | Yes | 5 (2.1 | 124 (54.1) | 0.083 | 0.21 |
No | 3 (1.3) | 97 (42.4) | |||
Bats in houses | Yes | 4 (1.7) | 93 (40.6) | 0.025 | 0.703 |
No | 4 (1.7) | 128 (55.9) | |||
Contact with wild animals | Yes | 0 (0.0) | 4 (1.7) | −0.022 | 0.74 |
No | 8 (3.5) | 217 (94.7) | |||