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.