Volume 23, Number 9—September 2017
Research
Role of Food Insecurity in Outbreak of Anthrax Infections among Humans and Hippopotamuses Living in a Game Reserve Area, Rural Zambia
Table 3
Activity | No. (%) persons |
OR (95% CI) | aOR (95% CI) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
With anthrax diagnosed since July 2011, n = 31 | Without anthrax diagnosed, n = 137 | |||
Skinning | 14 (45) | 8 (6) | 13.3 (4.4–41.5) | 12.0 (4.3–36.5) |
Cutting | 28 (90) | 70 (51) | 8.9 (2.5–47.5) | 8.1 (2.2–29.2) |
Eating | 30 (97) | 106 (77) | 8.8 (1.3–369.3) | – |
Carrying | 24 (77) | 54 (39) | 5.3 (2.0–15.4) | 4.4 (1.7–11.8) |
Preparing | 27 (87) | 92 (67) | 3.3 (1.1–13.7) | 2.1 (0.5–11.8) |
Cooking | 27(87) | 93(68) | 3.2 (1.0–13.2) | 2.0 (0.5–1.1) |
Drying | 21(68) | 64(47) | 2.4 (1.0–6.1) | 1.7 (0.6–4.5) |
*aOR, adjusted odds ratio (adjusted for eating hippopotamus meat); OR, odds ratio.
1Current affiliation: US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, USA.
2Current affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
3Current affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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