Abstract
A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted on 500 purposively selected farmers in and around Asella town, Oromia Regional State, of Ethiopia to assess their awareness and practices on the five major zoonotic diseases. About 91.2% of respondents heard about zoonotic diseases. Among five major zoonotic disease, 83.4% respondents heard about rabies, 61.6% tuberculosis, 33.2% taeniasis, 22.2% anthrax and 21.6% heard about brucellosis. 93.2% responded that disease could transmit from animal to human while only 26.0% responded that disease could transmit from human to animal. Majority responded inhalation (37.6%), ingestion (55.8%), contact (25.6%), dog bite (81.6%) and vector born (15.6%) as mode of transmission. Respondents were aware about the animals that transmits disease to human like pets (dogs and cats) (82.2%), sheep and goat (6.4%), equines (1.4%), pigs (1.0%), poultry (0.6%) and more than one livestock (27.6%). 85.8% responded that disease could be acquired from contaminated or diseased animal food products among which meat (60.4%) and milk (30.8%) were reported most by the respondents. 77.0% and 87.0% respondents of the study area were consuming raw meat and milk respectively. Among respondents, 59.0% provided health care of their livestock when animals were sick (28.2%) or during programmed health care (23.4%) and governmental order to treat and vaccinate (15.2%).
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