Awareness and attitudes towards anthrax and meat consumption practices among affected communities in Zambia: A mixed methods approach

Sitali, Doreen Chilolo; Mumba, Chisoni; Skjerve, Eystein; Mweemba, Oliver; Kabonesa, Consolata; Mwinyi, Mwinyi Omary; Nyakarahuka, Luke; Muma, John Bwalya

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“…The Maasai community has a belief that, drinking raw blood is important for young boys who have just been circumcised, as they believe that, raw blood replenishes nutrients lost during the procedure. On the other hand, lack of appropriate health education, poverty, or economic reasons can facilitate anthrax transmission as community members may tend to consume raw or undercooked meat, milk, or blood from animals infected with anthrax [40].…”

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Prevention, detection, and response to anthrax outbreak in Northern Tanzania using one health approach: A case study of Selela ward in Monduli district

Mwakapeje¹,

Assenga²,

Kunda³

et al. 2017

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Prevention, detection, and response to anthrax outbreak in Northern Tanzania using one health approach: A case study of Selela ward in Monduli district

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Kunda³

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“…Wabah yang baru dilaporkan akan menimbulkan kekhawatiran bahwa antraks berpotensi muncul kembali (reemerging) di daerah tersebut terkait dengan perubahan iklim yang mungkin memicu terjadinya penyakit ini. Pada tahun yang sama, antara bulan September dan Oktober 2016 dilaporkan pula terjadinya kasus antraks di Zambia (Sitali et al 2017), tercatat delapan kasus pada manusia dan 25 ternak mati termasuk kerbau dan kuda nil (Mwambi et al 2017). Risiko terulangnya kejadian antraks sama sekali tidak mudah untuk diprediksi, karena seringkali informasi dimana lokasi karkas ternak terinfeksi dikuburkan tidak pernah diidentifikasi (Naipospos 2011).…”

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“…Oleh karena itu, para petani memilih menyembelih ternak sakit sewaktu masih hidup sehingga dagingnya bisa dimakan atau dijual dalam usaha untuk menutup investasi finansialnya. Hal tersebut juga dinyatakan oleh Sitali et al (2017)…”

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“…Mayoritas (78,1%) responden memakan, menjual atau membagikan daging dari ternak yang mati kepada tetangganya. Mayoritas mereka mengetahui bahwa ternak dapat menularkan penyakit ke manusia, tetapi hanya 26,3% percaya bahwa mengonsumsi daging yang terinfeksi berisiko tertular (Sitali et al 2017). Hal serupa juga terjadi di Tanzania, bahwa kesadaran dan pengetahuan tentang penyakit zoonosis, dikombinasikan dengan kebiasaan mengonsumsi makanan dan cara pemeliharaan ternak yang buruk cenderung meningkatkan risiko masyarakat terpapar penyakit zoonosis termasuk antraks (Swai et al 2010).…”

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Risk Factors, Attitude and Knowledge of Farmers in Controlling Anthrax

Martindah¹

2018

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In terms of epidemiology, the distribution of anthrax globally remains enzootic, and is endemic in some parts of Indonesia. Contact with anthrax spores that present in meat, soil and grass can cause disease in both humans and animals. This paper describes risk factors causing high prevalence of anthrax, also attitude and knowledge of farmers’ community toward anthrax. Several risk factors that causing high prevalence of anthrax transmitted to humans are lack of farmers’ knowledge on anthrax, people's habit of slaughtering the sick animal and consuming the meat for economic reason. The knowledge of anthrax amongs farmer communities are influenced by education level, information sources, and professions. Farmers community knowledge in Indonesia towards anthrax is relatively low. Most farmers have wrong perception that anthrax is non-contagious disease. Control of anthrax in livestock and humans will be effective, if the community has better knowledge, attitude and good perception of disease. Interventions need to consider both technical and social (local knowledge and culture, as well as community behavior) factors to be appropriate and more acceptable to farmers and local communities.

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“…In Bangladesh, it was identi ed that skinners removed and sold the hides from discarded carcasses even though Islamic law forbids eating animals that die from natural causes [18]. This is worsened by the fact that a family may consume and sell some of the meat in order to salvage some losses from the death of the animal [17,18,25,27].…”

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Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards Anthrax in Northern Ethiopia: a mixed approach study

Romha

Girmay

2020

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Background: Anthrax is prioritized as the second diseases in Ethiopia based on its negative impacts at the household level by causing disease or production losses in livestock and sever disease in human. This study aimed at assessing the knowledge, attitude and practices (KAPs) of anthrax in the communities of Eastern Tigray, Northern Ethiopia. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was concurrently conducted with focus group discussions (FGD) and key informant interviews (KII) from May 2019 to April 2020. A total of 862 respondents have participated in the questionnaire survey. Of which, 800 were local community members. While 62 were professionals working at animal and human health service institutions. Likewise, qualitative data were collected using six FGDs and 11 KIIs. Results: sixty two percent (496/800) of the respondents said that they knew the disease anthrax while 38% (304/800) of them did not it. Only 9.3% (74/800) of the respondents reported germ as the causative agent of anthrax. About 56.5% (35/62) of the professional respondents said that the causative agent of the disease was bacteria while 33.9% (21/62) of them did not know it. More than sixty percent (64.1%, 513/800) of the respondents did not know whether the disease was zoonotic or not. Among the listed clinical signs, 26.3% (210/800) and 36.8% (294/800) of the respondents knew at least one signs in animal and human, respectively while 21.3% (170/800) and 20.1% (161/800) knew one or more transmission routes in animal and human respectively. Moreover, 43.4% (347/800) and 45.6% (365/800) of the respondents mentioned one or more control/prevention method in animal and human, respectively. Regarding qualitative results, some of the participants knew the disease (in animals) in their own local names, Lalish and Tafia (splenomegaly), and Gulbus (abdominal cramp and shivering). Some had perceived the disease only as human disease while others recognized after they were told its clinical signs in animals and humans. Conclusion: The KAP of the participants towards anthrax was low. There was no similar understanding of the disease among the participants. The study also revealed that the participants did not get consistent, adequate and continuous health messages regarding the disease.

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Awareness and attitudes towards anthrax and meat consumption practices among affected communities in Zambia: A mixed methods approach

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Cited by 44 publications

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Prevention, detection, and response to anthrax outbreak in Northern Tanzania using one health approach: A case study of Selela ward in Monduli district

Prevention, detection, and response to anthrax outbreak in Northern Tanzania using one health approach: A case study of Selela ward in Monduli district

Risk Factors, Attitude and Knowledge of Farmers in Controlling Anthrax

Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards Anthrax in Northern Ethiopia: a mixed approach study

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