Abstract
Brucellosis, an important zoonotic disease across the globe especially in thedeveloping nations, leads to economic as well as public health loss. Several measures, for example vaccination, surveillance, test and cull, biosecurity measures etc. can be used as control strategies to combat this problem. In addition, health education about brucellosis could also encourage the occupational risk populations to adopt and implement control measures. Health education has been considered as a significant part of disease control, and several educational tools have been developed for educating people about the transmission and control of pathogens having impact on human health, for example, Taenia solium, Taenia saginata, Schistosoma spp. soil transmitted helminths etc., however to the best of our knowledge, no such tool on Brucella spp. has been developed. We developed ‘STOP Mr. BruBug’, a game to educate both occupational and non-occupational risk groups. The educational tool has three levels; each level would help to improve knowledge regarding the transmission, prevention and control of brucellosis among several stakeholders, for example, veterinarians, medical professionals, livestock farmers, policy makers and laypersons. Further, to see the impact of this educational tool on the knowledge level of the stakeholders, evaluation will be performed, and we believe that this tool would help to enhance the knowledge regarding prevention and control of brucellosis among stakeholders.
