Table 1.
Characteristics of selected households and percentages of households in which at least one household member had exposures to wild animals (rodents, bats or monkeys) in the past month in Bangladesh, 2013 to 2016 (N = 10,002).
| Household characteristics, practices and exposure to wild animals | Overall percentage (95% CI) | Rural N = 8294 percentage (95% CI) |
Urban N = 1708 percentage (95% CI) |
Differences (rural vs. urban) percentage (p-value) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Having domestic animals in the household | 54 (53–55) | 61 (60–62) | 21 (19–23) | 40 (< 0.001) |
| Having any fruit tree near the boundary of the household | 95 (94–95) | 98 (97.8–98.4) | 78 (76–80) | 20 (< 0.001) |
| Any of the household members having consumed dropped fruit | 33 (32–34) | 37 (35–38) | 17 (15–19) | 20 (< 0.001) |
| Any of the household members having eaten fruit previously bitten by an animal | 13 (12–14) | 15 (14–15) | 5 (4–6) | 10 (< 0.001) |
| Any of the household members having drank fresh/raw date palm sap (throughout the study period) | 3.71(3.4–4.1) | 3.96 (3.5–4.4) | 2.5 (1.8–3.2) | 1.46 (0.055) |
| Used a method of rodent control in your house or property | 20 (19–21) | 21 (20–21) | 18 (16–19) | 3 (0.013) |
| Any household member had physical contact with rodents and/or observed rodents in the household | 90 (89–91) | 92 (91–92) | 84 (82–86) | 8 (< 0.001) |
| Rodents were observed in the household | 90 (90–91) | 92 (91–92) | 84 (82–86) | 8 (< 0.001) |
| Rodents were touched by household members | 8.53 (8.0–9.1) | 8.61 (8.0–9.2) | 8.14 (6.8–9.4) | 0.005 (0.537) |
| Any household member had physical contact with bats, including hunting or consuming | 0.5 (0.4–7) | 0.6(0.4–0.7) | 0.35 (0.1–0.7) | 0.25 (0.285) |
| Any household member touched, bitten or scratched by a monkey | 0.05 (0.02–0.13) | 0.05 (0.01–0.1) | 0.06 (0.056–0.17) | − 0.01 (0.876) |