Health Care Providers’ Knowledge and Practice Gap towards Joint Zoonotic Disease Surveillance System: Challenges and Opportunities, Gomma District, Southwest Ethiopia

Table 2

Knowledge gap of health service providers on rabies and joint surveillance, Gomma district, Jimma Zone, 2015.

Variable			Number ()	Percent (100%)
Heard about rabies? ()		Yes	322	99.7
		No	1	.3
Rabies attack ()	Dogs	Yes	293	91.0
		No	27	8.4
		Not sure	2	.6
	Human	Yes	319	99.1
		No	3	.9
	Cats	Yes	162	50.3
		No	135	41.9
		Not sure	25	7.8
	Other animals	Yes	136	42.2
		No	182	56.5
		Not sure	4	1.2
Rabies transmission ()	Sick animal to human	Yes	316	98.1
		No	4	1.2
		Not sure	2	.6
	Sick animal to animal	Yes	311	96.6
		No	8	2.5
		Not sure	3	.9
Rabies prevention ()	Vaccination of animals	Yes	238	73.9
		No	73	22.7
		Not sure	11	3.4
	Isolation of sick animals	Yes	260	80.7
		No	58	18.0
		Not sure	4	1.2
	Creating community awareness	Yes	301	93.5
		No	16	5.0
		Not sure	5	1.6
	Conducting active surveillance	Yes	282	87.6
		No	28	8.7
		Not sure	12	3.7