Zulifiqar Ali, Ramesh Kumar, Jamil Ahmed, Abdul Ghaffar, Sheh Mureed.
Knowledge, attitude and practice of crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever among rural population of Baluchistan, Pakistan.
Pak J Public Health Jan ;3(4):11-4.

Introduction:The descriptive cross-sectional study was performed in the two districts in Baluchistan province; one with high occurrence of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) and the other with low occurrence of CCHF. The purpose of the study was to asses a descriptive epidemiology of CCHF, and assess the level of knowledge, attitude and practice related to the CCHF disease. Methods:The results showed that an outbreak of CCHF in Balochistan had occurred in 1978 with 9 cases from existing data and 8 deaths with case-fatality ratio of 88%. In the 2001, 2002, 2003 number of total cases were 70, 93, 56 with 12, 10, 10 deaths respectively and case-fatality rate was reduced from 2004 because of standard measure for care at hospital in the district hospital supported by WHO. Results:The results of the survey showed that the study population had no education. Majority of them had occupation of shepherd and the family members such as waives daughters and sons were the one who took care of these animals. This group of population also had poor knowledge, attitude and practice in preventing themselves from CCHF disease. Conclusion:Besides the occurrence of this study demonstrated increasing of CCHF disease with decreasing of severity. However, good practice, knowledge and attitude about this disease among population of Balochistan in Pakistan was the major concern for immediate health education program to reduce the occurrence of this preventable disease.

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