WILD PIG RABIES – A CASE STUDY FROM PATHIPPARA, MALAPPURAM, KERALA.

Abstract

Human-animal conflict is a growing concern in today’s crowded world. Zoonoses is a major issue that we always trying to skip from this. Human-wild pig conflict one of the major problem in the Malappuram District both as agricultural damage and collision with vehicles. Overcrowding of the stray dogs in the forest fringe area played an important role in transferring diseases between wild and domesticated animals.  Here it is reporting one of the rare cases of Wild pig rabies with the details of area that it happened and also the victims included. The data were collected by the focus group discussion and the personal interviews.