Table 2.
Characteristics of animal exposures before and after the Tunisian revolution
| Characteristics | Total (N = 45,564) |
Before 2011 (N = 20,104) |
After 2011 (N = 25,460) |
p-value Before vs After 2011 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | N | % | ||
| Animal type | |||||||
| Dogs | 41,830 | 91.88 | 18,761 | 93.32 | 23,069 | 90.75 | 0.001 |
| VD | 16,017 | 35.18 | 9392 | 46.72 | 6625 | 26.06 | 0.001 |
| UVD | 19,392 | 42.60 | 7227 | 35.95 | 12,165 | 47.86 | 0.001 |
| SD | 6421 | 14.10 | 2142 | 10.65 | 4279 | 16.83 | 0.001 |
| Cats | 2194 | 4.82 | 699 | 3.48 | 1495 | 5.90 | 0.001 |
| Cattles | 1017 | 2.25 | 472 | 2.35 | 545 | 2.14 | 0.001 |
| Others | 480 | 1.05 | 172 | 0.85 | 308 | 1.21 | 0.001 |
| p-value* | 0.001 | 0.001 | 0.001 | ||||
| Injury site | |||||||
| Head and face | 1996 | 4.3 | 948 | 4.71 | 1048 | 4.1 | 0.001 |
| Extremities | 11,833 | 26 | 4479 | 22.2 | 7354 | 28.8 | 0.001 |
| Others | 31,734 | 69.7 | 14,677 | 73 | 17,057 | 66.99 | 0.001 |
| p-value** | 0.001 | 0.001 | 0.001 | ||||
| Types of exposure | |||||||
| Bites | 29,062 | 63.7 | 11,148 | 55.45 | 17,914 | 70.39 | 0.001 |
| Licking | 1466 | 3.78 | 663 | 3.29 | 803 | 3.1 | 0.001 |
| Scratches | 8214 | 21.2 | 3903 | 19.04 | 4311 | 16.9 | 0.001 |
| Others | 6811 | 17.5 | 4390 | 21.8 | 2421 | 9.5 | 0.001 |
| p-value*** | 0.001 | 0.001 | 0.001 | ||||
VD Vaccinated dogs, UVD Unvaccinated dogs, SD Stray dogs
p-value*: comparison between animal types; p-value**: comparison between injury sites; p-value***: comparison between types of exposure