Professor and HOD, Department of Community Medicine, MKCG Medical College, Berhampur, Odisha, India.
Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, MKCG Medical College, Berhampur, Odisha, India.
Indian J Public Health. 2021 Oct-Dec;65(4):384-386. doi: 10.4103/ijph.IJPH_58_21.
A nationwide lockdown was imposed from March 25, 2020, to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study aimed to analyze the trend, pattern of animal bite cases and to quantify the reduction in the incidence of animal bite cases due to diminution of exposure time with animals as a result of lockdown. The interrupted time series method was used to evaluate the effect of lockdown on the incidence of animal bite cases. Right after the lockdown, the mean number of reported animal bite cases decreased significantly (P = 0.04) by 8.3%. Furthermore, the month-to-month change of cases for the postlockdown period was in decreasing trend (ß3 = 0.872) and was significant (P < 0.05). Reduction in the exposure time with street animal surely reduce the incidence in animal bite cases and hence, the Government should take appropriate actions to control the intermixing of street dogs with marginal populations at the village and urban slums level.
自 2020 年 3 月 25 日起，全国范围内实施了封锁措施，以遏制 COVID-19 疫情的传播。本研究旨在分析动物咬伤病例的趋势和模式，并量化由于封锁导致与动物接触时间减少，动物咬伤病例发生率的降低。采用中断时间序列法评估封锁对动物咬伤病例发生率的影响。封锁后，报告的动物咬伤病例数明显减少（P=0.04），平均减少了 8.3%。此外，封锁后各月的病例逐月减少（ß3=0.872），且具有统计学意义（P<0.05）。与流浪动物接触时间的减少肯定会降低动物咬伤病例的发生率，因此，政府应采取适当措施控制流浪狗与农村和城市贫民窟边缘人群的混合。
