Nipah Virus Exposure in Domestic and Peridomestic Animals Living in Human Outbreak Sites, Bangladesh, 2013–2015
Ausraful Islam

, Deborah L. Cannon, Mohammed Ziaur Rahman, Salah Uddin Khan, Jonathan H. Epstein, Peter Daszak, Stephen P. Luby, Joel M. Montgomery, John D. Klena, and Emily S. Gurley
Author affiliations: icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh (A. Islam, M.Z. Rahman, E.S. Gurley); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (D.L. Cannon, J.M. Montgomery, J.D. Klena); Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (S.U. Khan); EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, USA (J.H. Epstein, P. Daszak); Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA (S.P. Luby); Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (E.S. Gurley)
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Table 2
Domestic animals fed with dropped fruit and date palm sap by households in 6 sites where spillover human NiV infection cases were detected, Bangladesh, 2013–2015*
Parameters |
Value |
p value† |
Domestic animals fed with dropped fruit |
201 (100) |
|
NiV antibody–positive cattle |
2/91 (2) |
0.21 |
NiV antibody–positive goats
|
0/110
|
|
Domestic animals fed with date palm sap |
16 (100) |
|
NiV antibody–positive cattle |
0/13 |
|
NiV antibody–positive goats |
0/3 |
|
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