Table 1
The distribution of injuries by job category.
| Characteristics | Frequency (percent) | Characteristics | Frequency (percent) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Job | Free job | 1708 (41.6) | affected organ | Head and Neck | 6 (0.1) |
| Manual worker | 393 (9.6) | Chest and abdomen | 11 (0.3) | ||
| Student | 348 (9.4) | Shoulder and hand | 166 (4) | ||
| Farmer and stockbreeder | 369 (9) | Hips and buttocks | 19 (0.5) | ||
| employee | 271 (6.6) | Thighs and legs | 211 (5.1) | ||
| other | 979 (23) | no | 2997 (73) | ||
| animal status | domestic | 4081 (99.4) | Vaccination | yes | 1841 (44.9) |
| Wild and feral | 23 (0.6) | no | 2263 (55.1) | ||
Figure 1
The incidence rate of animal bites, based on months of the year, per hundred thousand people in Najaf Abad (2012–2017).
Figure 2
The incidence rate of animal bites per year per hundred thousand people in the Najaf Abad (2012–2017).
Figure 3
The average age of the victims based on the location of injury from the organs of the injured patients referring to rabies units in the Najaf Abad, Isfahan (2012–2017).
Table 2
Distribution of injuries by animal species in different age and sex groups (N = 4104).
| Age group (year) | Male (N = 3648) N (%) | Female (N = 456) N (%) | P value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dog | Cat | Other | Dog | Cat | Other | ||
| 7< | 47 (37) | 48 (38) | 29 (23) | 16 (29) | 24 (44) | 14 (25) | 0.61 |
| 7–18 | 320 (65) | 121 (24) | 49 (10) | 28 (35) | 35 (43) | 17 (21) | <0.001 |
| 19–30 | 1173 (80) | 234 (16) | 44 (3) | 37 (32) | 67 (59) | 9 (7) | <0.001 |
| 31–45 | 764 (78) | 194 (19) | 19 (1) | 34 (34) | 62 (62) | 4 (4) | <0.001 |
| 46–60 | 332 (75) | 104 (23) | 6 (1) | 29 (38) | 44 (57) | 3 (3) | <0.001 |
| +61 | 112 (68) | 48 (29) | 4 (2) | 17 (51) | 16 (48) | 0 (0) | 0.07 |