Table 2.
Lifetime Occupational Exposure by Animal Type.
| Type of animal | Type of human–animal interaction | Total N | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Touched live animal no gloves | Touched dead animal no gloves | Contact with animal bodily fluids | Contact with tissues of dead animals | Contact with animal feces | Bitten by animal | Scratched by animal | Performed necropsy | ||
| Prosimians/lower primate | 8 (33%) | 3 (13%) | 12 (50%) | 10 (42%) | 12 (50%) | 1 (4%) | 1 (4%) | 10 (42%) | 24 (100%) |
| Old world monkeys | 8 (20%) | 4 (10%) | 20 (50%) | 14 (35%) | 24 (60%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (5%) | 13 (33%) | 40 (100%) |
| New world monkeys | 2 (14%) | 1 (7%) | 10 (71%) | 6 (43%) | 9 (64%) | 1 (7%) | 1 (7%) | 8 (57%) | 14 (100%) |
| Gibbons | 2 (17%) | 0 (0%) | 4 (33%) | 3 (25%) | 6 (50%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 7 (58%) | 12 (100%) |
| Great apes | 11 (44%) | 6 (24%) | 10 (40%) | 9 (36%) | 15 (60%) | 3 (12%) | 5 (20%) | 10 (40%) | 25 (100%) |
| Birds | 20 (50%) | 14 (35%) | 21 (53%) | 16 (40%) | 22 (55%) | 6 (15%) | 8 (20%) | 14 (35%) | 40 (100%) |
| Fruit bats | 6 (12%) | 3 (6%) | 24 (49%) | 16 (33%) | 29 (59%) | 9 (18%) | 11 (22%) | 13 (27%) | 49 (100%) |
| Insectivorous bats | 7 (15%) | 3 (7%) | 23 (50%) | 14 (30%) | 27 (59%) | 8 (17%) | 7 (15%) | 9 (20%) | 46 (100%) |
| Suids | 5 (26%) | 3 (16%) | 8 (42%) | 10 (53%) | 6 (32%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 8 (42%) | 19 (100%) |
| Small mammals | 7 (22%) | 9 (28%) | 17 (53%) | 15 (47%) | 13 (41%) | 2 (6%) | 2 (6%) | 14 (44%) | 32 (100%) |
| Rodents | 12 (24%) | 13 (25%) | 25 (49%) | 23 (45%) | 30 (59%) | 8 (16%) | 7 (14%) | 18 (35%) | 51 (100%) |
| Wild ungulates | 12 (43%) | 8 (29%) | 13 (46%) | 11 (39%) | 12 (43%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (4%) | 15 (54%) | 28 (100%) |
The far right column indicates the total number of participants who reported working with that animal group.