EPIDEMIOLOGY OF RABIES IN KADUNA OYO AND LAGOS STATES OF NIGERIA
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF RABIES IN KADUNA OYO AND LAGOS STATES OF NIGERIA
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1977
Authors
OGUNKOYA, ALBERT BANKOLE
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Abstract
Attempts to establish the status and the
public health importance of rabies in Nigeria have
been undertaken using three states in Nigeria as
models: Kaduna State which is centrally situated
in the northern part of the country, Oyo and Lagos
states in the South-west.
Questionnaire interviews, traceback investigations
and examination of hospital and health centre
records revealed that in Kaduna state, between
1971 and 1978, 1,495 people were bitten by dogs
of which 79% were males and 21% females. Male
children. 10-14 years of age, appeared to be at
relatively higher risk of being bitten by dogs
than female children in the same age group.
Monthly distribution showed a high incidence in
September, November and February. Thirty-seven
point six percent and sixty five percent of the
reported cases of biting dogs were diagnosed in
differert laboratories as being rabid and the
incidence of bite was higher in Soba areas and
Southern part of Kaduna State than in the northern
part. All the 15 people recorded in 3 hospitals as
dying of rabies were males and the death incidence
was highest among teenagers
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EPIDEMIOLOGY, RABIES, KADUNA, OYO, LAGOS STATES, NIGERIA