Table 4.
knowledge of the community members and professional respondents towards anthrax symptoms, transmission routes and control/prevention methods in animals
| Professionals | Community | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Frequency (n = 62) | % | Frequency (n = 800) | % |
| Number who did not knew anthrax symptoms (n/%) | 16 | 25.8 | 590 | 73.8 |
| Number who knew anthrax symptoms (n/%) | 46 | 74.2 | 210 | 26.3 |
| Sudden death | 33 | 53.2 | 115 | 14.4 |
| Un-clotted dark red blood | 26 | 41.9 | 32 | 3 |
| Bleeding from natural orifices | 29 | 46.8 | 24 | 4 |
| Incomplete rigor mortis | 17 | 27.4 | 14 | 1.8 |
| Other (swelling, wound, pain, fatigue, etc) | 8a | 12.9a | 78 | 9.8 |
| Number who did not knew anthrax transmission (n/%) | 13 | 21 | 630 | 78.8 |
| Number who knew anthrax transmission (n/%) | 49 | 79 | 170 | 21.3 |
| Ingesting of blood contaminated grass | 33 | 53.2 | 104 | 13 |
| Drinking contaminated water | 30 | 48.4 | 76 | 9.5 |
| Licking anthrax dead bones | 24 | 38.7 | 33 | 4.1 |
| Through contaminated soil | 35 | 56.5 | 67 | 8.4 |
| Believe its transmission but did not tell the method | 7 | 11.3 | ||
| Other (inhalation, contact) | – | – | 7 | 0.9 |
| Number who did not knew anthrax control/prevention methods (n/%) | 13 | 21 | 453 | 56.6 |
| Number who knew anthrax control/prevention methods (n/%) | 49 | 79 | 347 | 43.4 |
| Isolate/separate anthrax infected animals | 33 | 53.2 | 61 | 7.6 |
| Avoid with anthrax infected people | – | – | 37 | 4.6 |
| Burn all suspected anthrax animal carcasses | 27 | 43.6 | 33 | 4.1 |
| Bury all suspected anthrax carcasses | 32 | 51.6 | 22 | 2.8 |
| Vaccinate animals | 42 | 67.7 | 1 | 0.1 |
| Bury and burn all suspected anthrax carcasses | 22 | 35.5 | 1 | 0.1 |
| Using Traditional medicine | – | 36 | 4.5 | |
aswelling, black wound, diarrhoea, bloat