| characterisation and validation of farmers' knowledge and practice of cattle trypanosomosis management in the cotton zone of west africa. | we carried out a knowledge, attitude, practice (kap) survey on how farmers (n=895) manage cattle trypanosomosis in burkina faso, mali and guinea. most farmers (96%) recognised the common signs of trypanosomosis, 70% knew the role of tsetse flies in transmitting the disease and 96% had knowledge of drugs used for treatment. farmers reported that trypanosomosis was the most important cattle disease and estimated that 25% of their herd fall sick each year and 18% of the sick animals die. nearly all ... | 2009 | 19524082 |