Table 3.
Results of questionnaire on risk factors and awareness of cattle owners on bovine tuberculosis
|
Category |
Variable |
Level |
Responses |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | |||
| Practices |
Types of grazing system |
Communal pasture |
107 |
99.1 |
| Communal/own pasture |
0 |
0 |
||
| Own field/paddocks |
1 |
0.9 |
||
| |
Receiving veterinary service |
No |
3 |
2.8 |
| Yes |
105 |
97.2 |
||
| |
Contact of livestock with wild animals at water sources |
No |
12 |
11.1 |
| Yes |
96 |
88.9 |
||
| |
Moving animals close to protected areas searching for grazing land |
No |
17 |
15.7 |
| Yes |
91 |
84.3 |
||
| |
Source of water for livestock |
Shared/communal |
106 |
98.1 |
| Own/communal watering points |
2 |
1.9 |
||
| Knowledge of bTB |
Heard about bovine tuberculosis |
No |
70 |
64.8 |
| Yes |
38 |
35.2 |
||
| |
If yes, knowledge on transmission |
No |
15 |
39.5 |
| Yes |
23 |
60.5 |
||
| |
Awareness of bTB in wildlife |
No |
87 |
80.6 |
| Yes |
21 |
19.4 |
||
| |
Presence of any coughing animal in the herd |
No |
60 |
55.6 |
| Yes |
48 |
44.4 |
||
| |
Presence of very thin and emaciated animals in the herd |
No |
38 |
35.2 |
| Yes |
70 |
64.8 |
||
| |
Presence of both emaciated and coughing animals in the herd |
No |
54 |
50.0 |
| Yes |
54 |
50.0 |
||
| |
Condemnation of a lung with nodular bTB like lesions |
No |
94 |
87.0 |
| Yes | 14 | 13.0 | ||
Owners (n = 108) on bovine tuberculosis in cattle and wildlife.