EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ANIMAL BITES IN REGION OF ILAM, IRAN MOHAMAD REZA HAVASIAN1, ALIREZA ROOGHANI2, MOHAMAD RASUL YASEMI2, ROOZHIN

Objective: The obtained information of Zionistic disease caused to advantages in prognosis and treatment of this disease but also this group of disease caused to affect many of people and animals. Meantime, the disease of Animal Bites known as main hygienic complicated in the world. Aim of this study is study of prevalence of animal bites in Ilam city. Methods: Since this study is a analytical_ descriptive study, so all of the dependent data with animal bites in 2013 in Ilam was collected and after classification, analyses them with SPSS software version 16 Results: Present study indicated that prevalence of animal bites in 2011 in Ilam was 598 (107 case in 100000 person) 484 person of them was male (80.4%) and 114 person of them was female (19.6%). Also maximum and minimum number of animal bites respectively was in Shirvan chardavol (24.75%) town and Malekshahi town (2%). Conclusion: The obtained result indicated that animal bites by dogs was common animal bites in Ilam city (84.78%) and majority of animal bites occurred in rural regions that this result has accordance with other study in all of the world. majority of animal bites occurred by the animal that have mistress thus, training the persons that have domestic animals, about hygienic and vaccination of animals can effective on prevention of outbreak of disease of animal bites.