Urban livestock-keeping and dengue in urban and peri-urban Hanoi, Vietnam.

ABSTRACT: Urban livestock provides an important source of food and income, but it may increase the risks for disease transmission. Vectors, such as mosquitoes, might increase and thereby cause an enhanced transmission of infectious diseases, such as dengue fever; considered the most important mosquito-borne viral disease globally. This cross-sectional study evaluated the awareness of dengue fever and investigated how the presence of dengue vectors is affected by the keeping of livestock in urban households in the city of Hanoi, Vietnam. From February to March 2018, during the season of lowest occurrence of dengue in Hanoi, 140 households were interviewed, of which 69 kept livestock. A general trend was observed; respondents living in the Dan Phuong district, a peri-urban district, had better knowled

SUBMITTER: Jakobsen F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6879131 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature