A cross –sectional study carried out during the period between (2011 - 2012) in Shataonouf
village, Ashmoun, Menufya Governorate in the Nile Delta region of Egypt, it was involved
both descriptive and experimental research designs. Three hundred households involved in the
experimental group and the same number in the control group. The study was carried out in two
stages, pre public health education stage and post public health education stage and in between
there was public health education only for experimental group a structured questionnaire and
blood samples are taken from humans and animals in the two groups, in the two stages. From
every household two persons (male and female) and all domestic animals were examined
serologically. In Cows of control group, the prevalence of disease increased from (8.33% to
9.09%), while in the experimental group there was decline from (9.12% to 1.74%) and there
was a decline in the prevalence of disease in the respectively in other animals from 7.4 to 2.46%,
from 11% to 5% and from 7% to 3% in the experimental group. Also observed a decrease in
the prevalence of the disease in other ruminants in the experimental group. In humans, the
incidence of the disease in the control group by (BAPAT) it reached 6.5%, while by (RBPT)
amounted to 6.33%. In addition, in the experimental group were identified 7.33% by (BAPAT),
while (RBPT) recorded 6.83%. Public health education and veterinary extension through
strategic communication plays an important epidemiological role in reducing hazards of
exposure to infection and improving practices of Egyptian householders leading to minimizing
animal and human brucellosis in Egypt |
