Dalve Ganesh Shriram, Solanke Sonal Nagnath,Bahurupi Pooja.
INTRODUCTION
A zoonotic bacterial disease is a disease that can be very commonly transmitted between animals and humans.Bacterial zoonotic diseases can be transferred from animals to humans in many ways. Farmers and animal health workers are at increased risk of exposure to some zoonotic pathogens and they may catch zoonotic bacteria. They could also become carriers of the zoonotic bacteria that can be spread to other humans in the community. Arthropods, such as mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, and lice can actively or passively transmit bacterial zoonotic diseases to humans. Soil and water recourses, which are contaminated with manure contains a great variety of zoonotic bacteria, creating a great risk for zoonotic diseases. In view of thatFarmers and animal health workers are more likely to expose to the zoonotic diseases, the questionnaires were designed based on risk factors for them.
The survey has been conducted for the assessment of Public Health Significance of Chronic Bacterial Zoonotic diseases at Parbhani district, Maharashtra state.The small survey was conducted by taking questionnaire as a tooland 17 people were included in this survey. Thesurvey was conducted at Parbhani District and near places. Survey included Student, Farmer and Professional.
AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF SURVEY
- To learn the public awareness on zoonotic diseases
- To enlighten the people on various zoonotic diseases and prevention.
- Prevention and precautions to promote health
METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION
The questionnaires were filled from the Students, Farmers and Professionals
The questionnaire in brief is as follow
- Name & age, Occupation : Student/Farmer/ Professional
- Do you aware TB and brucellosis are Zoonotic? : Yes/No
- Do you drink raw milk, handle aborted materials? : Yes/No
- Do have the habit of feeding raw milk to your pets like dogs? : Yes/No
- Do you know about Brucellosis cause infection in humans? : Yes/No
- Drinking raw milk is source of infection for Brucellosis? : Know/ Don’t Know :
- How do you dispose the normal/aborted placenta of animals? : Burying/ Burning/ Feeding to dogs/ and any other details.
- State whether you work with live animals and which species you work with? Cattle, Dog, Cat,Goat, Sheep, Pig, Horse, Rabbit, Bird etc. .
- Please list whether you have any of the following- Asthma, Rhinitis/ respiratory problems, Eczema, Other skin diseases ,Back problems , Other musculoskeletal problems
- Do you feel any of your symptoms are related to work
- Please state your recent immunizations and tuberculosis test and date (Mantoux test)
Method of data collection: Random sampling, using questionnaires
SURVEY REPORT
| Category of participant | No of participants | Awareness about zoonotic importance(TB) | Awareness about zoonotic importance(Brucellosis) |
| Students | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| Farmers | 6 | 2 | 0 |
| Professionals | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Total | 17 | 13 | 11 |
SURVEY REPORT (Brief)
| Category | Report (%) |
| Aware has a TB Zoonotic | 76% |
| Drink raw milk | 12% |
| Have the habit of feeding raw milk to your pets | 12% |
| Know about Brucellosis cause infection in humans | 58% |
| Handle aborted material | 52.29% |
| Dispose the normal/aborted placenta of animals | Proper disposed methods: 58.8%
Not proper disposed methods: 41.7% |
| Occupational exposure to animals | Cattle (90%), Dog (90%), Cat (70%),Goat (88%),Sheep (70%),Pig (0%), Horse (23%), Rabbit (11%), Bird(52%) ,Others: ill |
| Do you feel any of your symptoms are related to work | 17%(3) |
| Recent immunizations and tuberculosis test and date | 0% |
Risk factors:
- Drinking of raw milk, handling of aborted material without appropriate personal protection are the major risk factors for transmission of brucellosis to humans
- The duration of contact with animals and the type of animal handled appeared to be the most significant risk factor for transmission of diseases (Cattle (90%), Dog (90%), Cat (70%), Goat (88%) and Sheep (70%))
- The habit of feeding raw milk to the pets is also important risk factor to transmit the diseases since Drinking raw milk is source of infection for Brucellosis and TB
Conclusion
- As per the survey, the people are known about zoonotic diseases (65%),still need to educate the people regarding zoonotic diseases
- Most of the farmer handle the aborted materials, need to take prequation.
- Dispose the normal/aborted placenta of animals is major problem, that has to be considered
- Most of the people handle aborted materials, they are likely to develop more risk
- People are not aware about the mantoux test, need to undergo for it
