3.6 Conclusion and recommendation
This study was intended to contribute knowledge about rodent’s flea in plague and non-plague foci villages of plague endemic area of Karatu district, northern Tanzania. In this study we found that plague foci villages was leading with high abundance of rodents and fleas with reservoir potential for plague disease compared to non-plague foci villages. Also the result of specific flea index for X.cheopis on rats in both plague and non-plague foci villages did not exceed the risky level i.e. (>1 potentially dangerous situation and >5 urgent situation as an outbreak of human plague is more likely to happen), from which the society is advised to keep implementing rodent and flea control methods in their surroundings that help in reducing the interaction of these plague agents with human society especially in farm lands and peridomestic areas. Furthermore this study recommends that, for effective prevention of emergence of plague disease and other flea borne zoonotic diseases, it is advisable to make regular surveillance of abundance of rodents and fleas in potential plague endemic areas while monitoring strategies placed for plague prevention and their implementation in the society in an attempt of improving them or replacing them with a modern one.