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Avicenna J Clin Microbiol Infect. 2014;1(1): 19568.
doi: 10.17795/ajcmi-19568
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Research Article

Animal Bites in Borujerd: An Overview of Animal Bites in Iran

Masoud Sabouri Ghannad 1*, Ghodratollah Roshanaei 2, Mohammad Yousef Alikhani 3, Pegah Alijani 1, Mahdi Ghanbari Sardari 1

1 Department of Microbiology, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran
2 Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Modeling of Noncommunicable Diseases Research center, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran
3 Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran
*Corresponding Author: Corresponding author: Masoud Sabouri Ghannad, Department of Microbiology, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran. Tel: +98-8118276295, Fax: +98-8118276299, Email: sabouri@umsha.ac.ir

Abstract

Background: Rabies has been reported as the most important endemic zoonotic disease in Iran and still remains as a major public health problem.

Objectives: The main objective of the current research was to study the epidemiology of animal bites in Borujerd County in Iran and to compare its prevalence to other parts of Iran from April 2006 to September 2011.

Patients and Methods: The data were recorded in questionnaires and analyzed by SPSS version 16. Chi-square test was performed to evaluate the relationship among variables and P value was set as 0.05.

Results: Dog bites were the most common (69.8%), followed by cat (17.2%), fox and wolf (1.4%), sheep and cow (2.8%), monkey and donkey (5%), mouse and squirrel (2.2%) and other animals (1.6%). Leg was the most common bite site forming 46.6% of cases, followed by hands (41.8%), buttocks (4.6%), head (4%) and body (2.9%). Most of the subjects belonged to the age group < 10 (175.2 per 100000 populations). The injury location was associated significantly with sex and the residential status.

Conclusions: This study strongly highlights a high priority goal for health authorities to develop educational programs, recommended for the general population to inform them about the benefits of continuing the medication. Vaccination of domestic dogs and also eradication of stray ones, in addition to educational programs should be prioritized by health authorities.


Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Sufficient attention is needed to find out the role of animal bite in Iran. The results approved the need of the substantial aspects like public education, prevention strategies and also vaccination of all domestic animals to evade the threat of rabies. Therefore it is essential to vaccinate all domestic and stray dogs and cats. Copyright © 2014, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences; Published by Safnek. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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