Prevalence of Hepatitis B and C in District Dir Upper, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Abstract

The current study was performed on the dominance of hepatitis B and C in three tehsils of District Dir upper namely Dir, Wari and Sheringal. The data were collected from three tehsils in which 11 were positive cases and 339 were found negative cases during my research work. The higher incidence of hepatitis was found in tehsil Dir which was 6 i.e. (3.52%) and lowest rate of hepatitis was showed in Tehsil Wari which was 4 i.e. (2.75%). And in Gender wise prevalence out of 350 positive cases were 8 i.e. (4.0%) were male and 3 i.e. (2%) were female. This shows that the prevalence of hepatitis is higher in males than females. The higher prevalence of hepatitis were found in the middle age people from 13-40 which was (4.76%) and lowest infection are establish in people having age greater than 41 which was (1.21%).

Prevalence and Taxonomic Identification of Ectoparasites (Ticks) Collected from Sheep in Sinjawi (Ziarat) Balochistan Pakistan

“…Sheep are wild mouflon of Europe and Asia. Economically and ecologically the goats and sheep have an important role in Asian agriculture (10). In Pakistan from Balochistan "Hyalomma (Euhyalomma schulzei" for the first time was recorded and re-explained, the ticks defined structural basis (11).…”