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Health Care workers (HCWs) are in constant interaction with communities and play an important role in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases, including zoonoses. We determined knowledge of HCWs regarding cause, vector, transmission, diagnosis and clinical symptoms of five zoonotic diseases: anthrax, brucellosis, rabies as well as Ebola and marburg haemorrhagic fevers in endemic western Uganda. This was a descriptive cross\u2010sectional study among HCWs based at health centres in and around Queen Elizabeth Conservation Area, Western Uganda. A self\u2010administered questionnaire was used to measure knowledge of these five most common zoonoses recently recorded in the area. Data were captured as true if the responses were correct or false if incorrect. Analyses were in STATA and inferential statistics by cross\u2010tabulation, and a chi\u2010square <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2010value of less than 0.05 was considered significant. A majority (114\/140; 81.4%) of the respondents had heard about zoonoses. The most accurately identified zoonoses were anthrax (128\/140; 91.4%) closely followed by rabies (126\/140; 90%), while only 21 (15%) respondents knew that cryptosporidiosis was zoonotic. Up to 20% (28\/140) and 12.8% (18\/140) thought that malaria and HIV, respectively, were zoonotic. There was poor overall knowledge of the endemic diseases brucellosis among all the participants, where only 1.4% (2\/140) knew its causative agent, clinical symptoms and transmission. There was a total lack of knowledge (0%) about anthrax and Ebola whereby none of the 140 HCWs knew all the three above aspects required to be knowledgeable for each of the two diseases. Generally, there was poor knowledge of the five zoonoses. We recommend that medical curricula incorporate training on zoonotic and other emerging diseases, and continuing medical education regarding zoonoses should be designed for the HCWs practicing in hotspot zones.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1111\/zph.12509","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,8,7]],"date-time":"2018-08-07T06:18:15Z","timestamp":1533622695000},"page":"850-858","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Health workers\u2019 knowledge of zoonotic diseases in an endemic region of Western Uganda"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"65","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9458-4240","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Asiimwe B.","family":"Benon","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Microbiology, College of Health Sciences Makerere University Kampala Uganda"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kiguli","family":"Juliet","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Community Health, School of Public Health Makerere University Kampala Uganda"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Majalija","family":"Samuel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biosecurity, Ecosystem Health and Veterinary Public Health College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity Makerere University Kampala Uganda"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kansiime","family":"Catherine","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"One Health Central and Eastern Africa, School of Public Health Makerere University Kampala Uganda"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sunday","family":"Benjamin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"One Health Central and Eastern Africa, School of Public Health Makerere University Kampala Uganda"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mahero","family":"Michael","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, Ecosystem Health Division, College of Veterinary Medicine University of Minnesota St. Paul Minnesota"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Rwego B.","family":"Innocent","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biosecurity, Ecosystem Health and Veterinary Public Health College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity Makerere University Kampala Uganda"},{"name":"One Health Central and Eastern Africa, School of Public Health Makerere University Kampala Uganda"},{"name":"Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, Ecosystem Health Division, College of Veterinary Medicine University of Minnesota St. Paul Minnesota"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,8,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_9_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0140-6736(06)68591-7"},{"issue":"3","key":"e_1_2_9_3_1","first-page":"235","article-title":"Suspected outbreak of cutaneous anthrax in Kasese district, the investigation and response, April to May 2007","volume":"6","author":"Bazeyo W.","year":"2009","journal-title":"East Arican Journal of Public Health"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1469-0691.2012.03816.x"},{"issue":"28","key":"e_1_2_9_5_1","first-page":"778","article-title":"Bubonic and pneumonic plague \u2010 Uganda, 2006","volume":"58","author":"CDC","year":"2009","journal-title":"MMWR. 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