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Socio-Economic and Assessment of Community Contributions About Factors Affecting the Control of Tsetse Fly and Human African Trypanosomiasis in Gombe, Gombe State, Nigeria

Journal: International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Publications (Vol.4, No. 6)

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Page : 75-78

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Abstract

Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), cause sleeping sickness disease in humans and livestock in subSaharan Africa and trust on tsetse flies as their major insect vector. The Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) was nearly eradicated from Africa continent in the year 1960's subsequent the achievement of regulator agendas in a numeral of prevalent countries. Nigeria is one of the greatest and most populated country in Africa; though, simply inadequate report about the existence and multiplicity of HAT mingling in the country is available. Methods: Design and method of this research conducted by using a physical questionnaire, which administered to 86 respondents in the research area chance. The physical questionnaire strong-minded mainly on selected respondents awareness, approach and opinion on the livestock administration, existence of cattle trypanosomosis, disease transmission, periodically, control methods, sources and type of traditional technology in preventing cattle from tsetse fly attack. Results: Formerly publics are involved in ongoing and active programmes for controlling and regulating tsetse and Humman African Ttrypanosomiasis (HAT), the most important is their knowledge, approaches, performers and contributions are to be understood then experimental. 41-50 has highest percentage 34.9% among the ages of respondents. Here, 88.4% of male respondents are capable and considered in governing, controlling and handling the cattle in any situation or one way or the other, living at home or during migration and only 11.6%) were female which are considered in handling cattle at home sometimes. 89.5% had knowledge about tsetse, 81.4% are capable to described the similarities of tsetse and house flies, 66.3% of respondents knows the tsetse bite, (13.9%) don't know about tsetse. 46.5% of the respondents tsetse bite in human and it is also a dangerous to animal with show that, 69.8% of the respondents believed. Most of them knew the risk associated with tsetse bite in human. The frequently stated health dangers related with tsetse bite in humans were sleeping sickness, fever (23.3%), malaria (5.8%) and headache (3.5%). Conclusions: The tax of HAT in isolated rural publics is problematic to detain through routine investigation methods alone. Awareness on keeping tax of human African trypanosomiasis and public contributions about factors aff

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