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Investigation of the influence factors in areas where rabies rage in Guizhou province
YU Chun, WANG Ding-Ming, ZHUANG Yan, LI Zhao-Yi, ZHOU Jing-Zhu, HUANG Yan, LIU Bo, ZHANG Dong, XU Zhen, TANG Qing, FENG Zi-Jian, LIANG Ming-Jiang, YANG Zhi-Xiang, LI Tian-Yong, SU Na, WANG Rui, WANG Lang, ZENG Ya-Xu
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【Abstract】 Objective To investigate the influence factors in areas where rabies raged in Guizhou province, and provide the evidence for the establishment of focused intervention measure suitable for the rural areas. Methods A multistage sampling method was used in this study and all the data were analyzed by Excel 2003 after logging data with Epi Data. Results In recent years, the incidence of rabies in Zhenning county was very serious. The incidence rates of rabies in 2005 and 2006 were 6.16/10 thousand and 5.19/10 thousand respectively, which mainly caused by bite of dogs. Because of the large number of the dogs, the injury rate of the crowd was also higher. It was 6.47% in 2006, and there was significant difference between exposure rate of students (10.58%) and that of farmers (5.05%)(χ2=36.57, P<0.001). About 31.40% exposed crowd were not done the medical treatment, and 35.41% exposed crowd without inoculation rabies vaccines, only 4.26% of Ⅲ° exposed crowd with rabies immunoglobulin. Villagers knew less about the knowledge of rabies prevention and control. Conclusion The main factors leading to the rage of rabies were large number of dogs, low immunization rate of the crowd, high exposure rate of the public and low treatment rate of exposed crowd in the investigated districts.

2009, 20 (2): 151-153.