Table 5. Recorded anthrax outbreaks* and cases in livestock in study sites (1995–2018).
Category | ||||
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Interface | Site | Year | Outbreaks | Cases |
Hwange | 1995 | 5 | 11 | |
Ngamo | - | 1 | 6 | |
Chizvirizvi | 2004 | 1 | 10 | |
2006 | 2 | 20 | ||
2008 | 3 | 45 | ||
2009 | 2 | 30 | ||
2010 | 1 | 9 | ||
Sub-total | 15 | 131 | ||
Non-interface | Tsholotsho South | 2000 | 1 | 15 |
2010 | 2 | 25 | ||
2011 | 2 | 30 | ||
2012 | 2 | 20 | ||
2015 | 3 | 40 | ||
2017 | 3 | 36 | ||
Magunje | 2001 | 1 | 10 | |
2005 | 1 | 15 | ||
2006 | 1 | 9 | ||
2009 | 1 | 12 | ||
2010 | 1 | 17 | ||
2014 | 1 | 29 | ||
2015 | 1 | 18 | ||
2016 | 1 | 21 | ||
2017 | 1 | 38 | ||
Sub-total | 22 | 335 | ||
Grand total (cattle) | 37 | 466 |
* An anthrax outbreak was the occurrence of one or more animal deaths at a particular place and time which was laboratory confirmed to have been infected with B. anthracis.