Bio
Tanka Khanal, from Nepal, is a graduate student at Department of Animal Sciences, Wageningen University, the Netherlands under Erasmus Mundus Scholarship. He is interested in animal nutrition modelling, in vivo nutrient utilization and productivity enhancement.
Educational Journey
Master of Veterinary Science • Veterinary Medicine
Experience
graduate student
0 - Present • Department of Animal SciencesGrants and Awards
Erasmus Mundus Scholarship
Erasmus Mundus
Research
Knowledge and Epidemiological Risk Factors of Japanese Encephalitis in Community Members of Rupandehi District, Nepal
To study knowledge, attitude and risk factors of Japanese Encephalitis (JE), a research was conducted from May to November 2012 in Rupandehi district Nepal including household (HH) survey, pig survey and swine sero survey. Questionnaire survey on One hundred HH (50 pig raisers and 50 pig non raisers) to compare JE risk factors; 100 pig farmers to study roles of pig as risk factor for JE in human was conducted. Altogether 54% of respondents heard about JE with 60% (30/50) in pig raisers and 48% (24/50) in pig non raisers, which was not significantly different (p> 0.05). The media like Radio, TV, were found the most important source of information. The knowledge of JE was found significantly higher (p<0.01) in younger people (16-40 yr). The important predictors for knowledge of JE were education (β1 = 0.195), access to media (β1 = 0.357), and age (β1 = 0.165) of respondents. In next 100 pig farmer’s survey, 84.5% of pig farmers had seen mosquitoes in pig shed and 52% had seen mosquitoes biting pigs.
