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First Results from a Case–Control study for the Identification of Risk factors for Foot-and-Mouth Disease in the Anuradhapura District of Sri Lanka (2015)

Art

Vortrag

Autoren

Umanga, C. G.

Nihal, W.

Baumann, M.P.O. (WE 8)

Veerasak, P.

Doherr, M. (WE 16)

Kongress

The 4th Food Safety and Zoonoses Symposium for Asia Pacific

Chiang Mai, Thailand, 03. – 05.08.2015

Quelle

The 4th food safety and zoonoses symposium for Asia Pacific | 3-5 August 2015 | Veterinary Public Health Centre for Asia Pacific — Veterinary Public Health Centre for Asia Pacific (VPHCAP), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chiang Mai University (Hrsg.)

— S. 39–42

ISBN: 978-974-672-988-8

Sprache

Englisch

Verweise

URL (Volltext): http://www.vet.cmu.ac.th/symposium2015/download/ProceedingSym2015.pdf

Kontakt

Institut für Lebensmittelsicherheit und -hygiene

Königsweg 69
14163 Berlin
+49 30 838 62551 / 52790
lebensmittelhygiene@vetmed.fu-berlin.de / fleischhygiene@vetmed.fu-berlin.de

Abstract / Zusammenfassung

Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) is a highly contagious disease that can cause considerable economic losses to the cattle and buffalo farmers. This study was aimed to identify the potential risk factors of FMD in the Anuradhapura district, Sri Lanka. Four divisional secretariat areas were selected from Anuradhapura district based on FMD disease prevalence.
Twenty case farms and forty control farms were selected from eacharea. A Questionnaire was used to collect the information with regard to the risk factors of FMD. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidenceintervals (95% CI) were calculated to determine association between potential risk factors with reference to case and control farms. The results showed that feeding animals with cut and fed method (OR=3.06, 95% CI=1.53,6.39 ), animal contact that occurs grazing near the lake areas (OR= 2.35, 95% CI=1.22,4.68), animal contact that occurs at the village level (OR= 2.92, 95% CI=1.41,6.41), animal contact that occurs between villages (OR= 1.82, 95% CI=1.02,3.3), and purchasing or selling animal during the outbreak (OR= 2.13, 95% CI=1.17,3.36) were the risk factors associated with the recent FMD outbreak. Findings from this study are expected to contribute towards priority setting and implementation of disease control measures for FMD.