Epidemiologic change investigation of brucellosis in Kurdistan province in 2006-2007

Brucellosis is one of the most important zoonotic diseases that can be transmitted with contact with Blood, Placenta, other animal genital production, milk and other productions. The most important control way is prevention. In this survey that is a cross - sectional study, exactly 1059 brucellosis patients were studied in1385. The Index for patient was Right agglutination test 1/80 and more. All patients with this Index were investigated and all data from them were gathered. The date was analyzed with t-test & qi-2 in SPSSwin13. 1059 patients were investigated in this Survey which 538 (% 50/8) of them were male and 521 (49/2%) were female. 106 (%10) were from urban areas and 935 (%90) were lived in rural areas. The incidence rats were 73/5 per 100000 in, and the highest incidence rat in KurdistanProvince was reported in Bijar with 329 per 100000 The lowest incidence rat was in Baneh with 28 per 100000. Most of the patients were from house keeper wives (%44/2). There wasn't any relationship between sex and place of living, but there was a relationship between average of the age in urban and rural areas. The results of this study show clear difference between epidemiologic status in 1385 compared with 1383&1382, and it shows that incidence of brucellosis in rural and urban areas in Kurdistan has decreased. It's seemed that proceedings of veterinarian system special vaccination of animal and health education by health system of the medical university are effective in decreasing the brucellosis in Kurdistan.