Control of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia: Knowledge, attitudes, perceptions and practices in Narok district of Kenya

Kairu-Wanyoike, Salome; Kiara, Henry K.; Heffernan, Claire; Kaitibie, Simeon; Gitau, G.K.; McKeever, Declan J.; Taylor, Nick

doi:10.1016/j.prevetmed.2014.03.029

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“…MCF, ECF, FMD, CBPP and AAT were prioritized as the most frequently occurring diseases in cattle herds in the past year. These results affirm previous findings in the region (Kairu-Wanyoike et al 2014 ; Kimaro et al 2017 ). Important zoonotic diseases such as brucellosis were not identified despite recent reports of high seroprevalence in cattle within the high interface zone (Enström et al 2017 ).…”

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confidence: 93%

A participatory epidemiological study of major cattle diseases amongst Maasai pastoralists living in wildlife-livestock interfaces in Maasai Mara, Kenya

Nthiwa

Alonso²,

Odongo

et al. 2019

Trop Anim Health Prod

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Livestock-wildlife interactions promote the transmission of a wide range of infectious diseases that constraint livestock production. We used a participatory appraisal approach to find out and rank infectious diseases of concern to pastoralists in a zone of intense wildlife-livestock interaction and another zone with limited interactions. Four villages were selected purposively in areas with intensive cattle-wildlife interactions (zone 1), and another two in areas with low to moderate cattle-wildlife interactions (zone 2). Data were collected in focus group discussions (FGDs) using participatory epidemiological methods (PE); each group had 8–13 participants. Results of impact matrix scoring from all sites indicated that malignant catarrhal fever (MCF), anthrax, foot and mouth disease (FMD), contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP), east coast fever (ECF) and African animal trypanosomiasis (ATT), in decreasing order, had the highest impact on livestock production. A Kruskal–Wallis test revealed a significant difference in FMD annual prevalence between cattle age groups ( p < 0.001) and was the highest in animals > 4 years (median score of 32.5, range, 10–50). FMD had the highest impact on milk production, but based on veterinary costs (treatment costs), it was ranked second to CBPP. The study provides information on disease priorities that occur in the target zones in Mara ecosystem and which the local pastoralists must consider when accessing key ecosystem services such as water and pasture. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s11250-018-01790-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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confidence: 93%

A participatory epidemiological study of major cattle diseases amongst Maasai pastoralists living in wildlife-livestock interfaces in Maasai Mara, Kenya

Nthiwa

Alonso²,

Odongo

et al. 2019

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“…Understanding the drivers of dairy farmers’ motivation is, therefore, essential for implementing effective intervention strategies [ 29 , 30 ]. However, only a limited number of studies have investigated factors motivating farmers to improve animal disease control in Ethiopia or other sub Saharan countries [ 31 , 32 ], none of them focusing on mastitis. The theory of planned behavior (TPB) framework has been used in several studies to obtain insight in the psychological factors that influence intentions related to animal health.…”

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The intention of North-Western Ethiopian dairy farmers to control mastitis

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Understanding the intentions of dairy farmers towards mastitis control is important to design effective udder health control programs. We used the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to explore the intentions of North-Western Ethiopian dairy farmers towards implementing non-specified mastitis control measures (nsMCMs) and towards implementing 4 specific MCMs. Face to face interviews were held with 134 dairy farmers to study associations between their intentions and any of three factors (attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control) that, according to the TPB, determine intentions. The majority of the farmers (93%) had a positive intention to implement nsMCMs, whereas a smaller majority of farmers had the intention to implement the specific MCMs to improve udder cleaning (87%), to improve stall hygiene (78%), to improve feeding of cows (76%), and to perform foremilk stripping (74%). Farmers had a more positive attitude, but lower subjective norm and lower perceived behavioural control towards implementing nsMCMs compared with implementing most specific MCMs, although the subjective norms for stall hygiene and perceived behavioural control for improving feeding of cows were also low. Attitude was positively associated with intentions to implement nsMCMs, to improve cleaning of the udders, to improve stall hygiene and to implement foremilk stripping. Both the intention to improve udder cleaning and to implement foremilk stripping, were positively associated to subjective norms towards these MCMs. Our data can help tailor intervention programs aiming to increase the intention of Ethiopian dairy farmers to implement MCMs and thus to improve udder health in this country. We show that such programs should primarily focus on changing attitude and secondarily on improving the farmers’ subjective norms.

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“…A number of studies have pointed out the importance of awareness of the disease among farmers for disease control. The effect of the availability of improved veterinary infrastructure, adequate veterinary personnel, increased vaccination coverage and treatment have been emphasized by other studies as the keys for the control of the disease (Alemayehu et al, 2015;Kairu-Wanyoike et al, 2014). A strong surveillance system can only be achieved with the backing of a strong veterinary field and laboratory service (Demil, 2017).…”

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“…Treatment is known to create carriers which tend to harbour infections in affected herds (Niang et al, 2010;Yaya et al, 2003). Control of CBPP is achieved through quarantine, movement control, culling, treatment and vaccination; strategies which are very expensive and impractical for farmers in most African countries (Abdela and Yune, 2017;Kairu-Wanyoike et al, 2014;Mwirigi et al, 2016). The role of surveillance, which is backed by strong field and laboratory services, as well as disease control through mass vaccinations, cannot be overemphasised (Demil, 2017).…”

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Incidence of Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia in the Northern Regions of Namibia

Mbiri¹,

Kandiwa²,

Mushonga³

et al. 2020

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A 25-year retrospective study investigated the incidence of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) in the northern communal areas of Namibia. Throughout the study period, the proportion of bovine animals that clinically recovered following treatment of suspected CBPP infection were greater than those that died from suspected CBPP infection (71.6% and 28.4%, respectively, N=4743; z=42.16, p<.001). The proportion of unconfirmed CBPP diagnoses was greater than that of confirmed cases (65.4% and 34.6%, respectively, z=30.04, p<.001). More animals died from confirmed CBPP infection in the North Central Regions (NCR) and Zambezi region (5.4% and 4.1%, respectively) than in Kavango (East and West) and Kunene regions (2.1% and 0.5%, respectively; p<.05). Kavango regions had the greatest proportion of animals (7.9%; p<.05) that clinically recovered following treatment of confirmed CBPP infection whilst more animals in NCR and Kunene region recovered following treatment of unconfirmed CBPP (41.6% and 1.0%, respectively; p<.05). The NCR and Kunene region had greater proportions of animals that died from unconfirmed CBPP infections (9.1% and 1.0%, respectively; p<.05). More animals than expected died of confirmed

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Control of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia: Knowledge, attitudes, perceptions and practices in Narok district of Kenya

Cited by 19 publications

References 19 publications

A participatory epidemiological study of major cattle diseases amongst Maasai pastoralists living in wildlife-livestock interfaces in Maasai Mara, Kenya

A participatory epidemiological study of major cattle diseases amongst Maasai pastoralists living in wildlife-livestock interfaces in Maasai Mara, Kenya

The intention of North-Western Ethiopian dairy farmers to control mastitis

Incidence of Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia in the Northern Regions of Namibia

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