Getachew Derbew Belay*, Amare Bihon Asfaw, Hagazi Fantay Tadesse and Asma Seid
Background: Zoonotic diseases cause significant health impact for animal and human population. Despite of, Dairy livestock production play a vital role in the economy, it can also be a source of zoonotic pathogen dissemination.
Objectives: It is aimed to assess knowledge, attitude, and practices of dairy farm participants concerning zoonosis.
Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted from March, 2022 to August, 2022 in Sodo town, using a questionnaire among dairy farm participants (n=123). The relations between the explanatory variables and the three indexes were assessed based on linear regression analyses.
Results: The overall positive response for knowledge, attitude and practice were 65.34%, 73.90% and 59.34% respectively. Moreover, 92.24%, 85.37%, and 80.49% of them knows eating uncooked meat, drinking raw milk and collecting aborted fetuses and placenta with bare hand as source of infection, respectively. Furthermore, 73.98% showed positive attitude towards risk of acquiring disease through consumption of raw meat and milk. Education level and age were positively and negatively associated with better knowledge, attitude and practice toward zoonoses respectively. Furthermore, farm type and its size and respondent’s role and their residence also associated with better practice of zoonotic disease prevention (p<0.05).
Conclusions: This result indicated that, education have positive impact on knowledge, attitude and practice about zoonotic diseases control and prevention. Thus organized training programs for the members of the dairy producers’ on zoonotic disease might enhance awareness on public health impact of zoonotic disease.
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