Bite Wounds and Treatment
None of the 471 urban and 9 (18.4%) pastoralist respondents experienced bite wounds in his/her household in the last 5 years. Among the pastoralists 1 was a child under 5 years, 5 were children between 5 and 15 years and 3 were adults. Bites were recalled to be located in the foot and leg (N = 7) and arm and hand (N = 2). Four out of the 9 bitten patients flushed the wound with water and soap while the others went to a medical facility in town. When bitten by an animal, 58.7% of the pastoralists, as opposed to 1% of the urban responded that they would go to traditional healers. The rest of the interviewed pastoralists either do wound cleaning themselves or go to medical facilities. Ninety-nine percent of the urban interviewees would go directly to a medical facility.