Table 3.
Participants understanding and information source about cause and transmission of human and bovine tuberculosis.
| Variable | Category | Human TB Frequency (%) |
Bovine TB Frequency (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heard of the diseases | Yes | 340 (97.4) | 84 (24.1) |
| No | 9 (2.6) | 265 (75.9) | |
| Source of information | Newspaper | 17 (5.0) | 4 (4.8) |
| Radio/TV | 71 (20.9) | 35 (41.7) | |
| TB patient | 136 (40.0) | 12 (14.3) | |
| Health institute | 37 (10.9) | ------ | |
| School | 6 (1.8) | ------ | |
| Family | 19 (5.6) | ------ | |
| Multiple sources | 54 (15.9) | 33 (39.3) | |
| Cause of the disease | Bad weather | 107 (31.7) | 7 (8.3) |
| Microorganism (bacteria) | 154 (45.3) | 53 (63.1) | |
| Genetically from parents | 25 (7.4) | 16 (19.0) | |
| Did not know | 54 (15.9) | 8 (9.5) | |
| Way of transmission | Inhalation | 130 (41.1) | 4 (7.1) |
| Contact | 21 (6.6) | ------- | |
| Ingestion of raw milk and meat | ------- | 24 (42.9) | |
| Inhalation, contact and ingestion (raw milk and meat) | 31 (9.8) | 28 (50.0) | |
| Inhalation and contact | 112 (35.4) | ------ | |
| Did not know | 22 (7.0) | ------ | |
| Total | 349 (100.0) | 349 (100.0) |