Saleem Sheikh Mohd, Quansar Ruqia, Haq Inaamul, Salim Khan Shahzada Muhammad
Department of Community Medicine, Government Medical College, Srinagar, India.
J Vet Behav. 2021 Mar-Apr;42:48-52. doi: 10.1016/j.jveb.2021.01.007. Epub 2021 Jan 30.
The world was taken aback after the corona pandemic started from China and soon engulfed the whole of the world. Strict restrictions were in place since the beginning, and people were confined to their homes; only emergency services were allowed to work. The study's objectives were to see the effect of lockdown on the number of dog bite cases being reported to our antirabies clinic. The study was conducted in the antirabies clinic of the Department of Community Medicine, Government Medical College, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir. This study involved a dog bite victim who approached the said clinic during the lockdown, which was implemented in the wake of COVID-19 from March 21, 2020 to June 03, 2020. We included all the dog bite victims living in the Srinagar city and from the adjoining districts who had been bitten by the street dog during the lockdown phase. Over 5 years, 4,670 (73.6%) dog bites among males were reported. The proportion of dog bites among males varies from 72% to 81% in the 5 years. It can be observed that a maximum of 783 (81.1%) dog bites were reported from males during the lockdown period in 2020. Moreover, 2,847 (44.9%) bites were category II dog bites, while 3,392 (55.1%) were category III dog bites. There were fewer dog bites reported at the first, fourth, seventh, eighth, and ninth weeks while there was a little surge in cases on the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, and 10th week. Lockdown had indirectly reduced the number of dog bite cases reported to the clinic during different lockdown phases than the previous year's data.
新冠疫情自中国爆发并迅速席卷全球后，世界为之震惊。自疫情伊始便实施了严格管控措施，人们被限制在家中，只有应急服务人员被允许工作。本研究的目的是观察封锁措施对向我们的抗狂犬病诊所报告的犬咬伤病例数量的影响。该研究在查谟和克什米尔邦斯利那加政府医学院社区医学系的抗狂犬病诊所进行。这项研究涉及一名在封锁期间前往上述诊所的犬咬伤受害者，封锁于2020年3月21日至2020年6月3日因新冠疫情而实施。我们纳入了所有居住在斯利那加市及毗邻地区且在封锁阶段被流浪狗咬伤的犬咬伤受害者。在过去5年中，共报告了4670例（73.6%）男性犬咬伤病例。在这5年中，男性犬咬伤的比例在72%至81%之间。可以观察到，2020年封锁期间男性报告的犬咬伤病例最多，为783例（81.1%）。此外，2847例（44.9%）咬伤为II级犬咬伤，而3392例（55.1%）为III级犬咬伤。在第一、第四、第七、第八和第九周报告的犬咬伤病例较少，而在第二、第三、第五、第六和第十周病例略有增加。与上一年的数据相比，封锁措施在不同封锁阶段间接减少了向诊所报告的犬咬伤病例数量。
