Background
: Brucellosis (Malta fever) is a major contagious zoonotic disease, with
economic and public health importance.
Methods
To
assess the effect of meteorological (tempera
ture, rainfall, humidity, and
wind) and climate parameters on incidence of brucellosis, brucellosis distribution and
meteorological zoning maps of Zanjan Province were prepared using Inverse Distance
Weighting (IDW) and Kriging technique in Arc GIS medium.
Zoning maps of mean
temperature, rainfall, humidity, and wind were compared to brucellosis distribution
maps.
Results:
C
orrelation test showed no relationship between the mean number of patients
with brucellosis and any of the four meteorological paramete
rs.
Conclusion:
I
t seems that in Zanjan province there is no correlation between
brucellosis and meteorological parameters.
