Risk Factors Associated With Spread of Peste Des Petits Ruminants in Turkana District, Kenya
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This research established the risk factors associated with PPR
spread in Turkana district. A total of 54 variables describing
key sheep and goat husbandry and production process in the
pastoral set up in Turkana community being the activities that
facilitate exposure of sheep and goats to possible PPR infective
herds or animals were laid out in a questionnaire. The risk
assessment questionnaire was developed as a Likert scale based
on summated rating scale format. Factor analysis resulted into
11 factors, a reduction from the 54 variables. These reduced
factors were thus taken as risk factors associated with spread
of PPR in Turkana.
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