Alexandria Journal of Veterinary Sciences www.alexjvs.com AJVS. Vol.70 (1): 14-24 July 2021 DOI: 10.5455/ajvs.59420 Questionnaire Survey on Knowledge, Attitude and Practices on COVID 19 Outbreak Among Veterinarians in Nigeria Weka Rebecca 1* , Dauda Bwala 1 , Idowu Fagbamila 1 , Yachilla Maryam Bukar -Kolo 2 , Maryam Ibrahim Buba 3 , Makama Sunday 1 , Pam D. Luka 1 1 National Veterinary Research Institute Vom, Plateau state Nigeria 2 University of Maiduguri, Borno state Nigeria 3 Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Abuja, Nigeria ABSTRACT Key words: Veterinarians, COVID-19, Nigeria, knowledge, attitude, practices. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), a viral pneumonia-like disease caused by novel Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) started in Wuhan, Hubei Province of China on December 31 st 2019, and assumed a pandemic status; infecting about 30 million people, with a mortality in excess of 957,000 as at 20 st September, 2020. This study assessed the knowledge, attitude, and practices concerning COVID-19 among veterinarians with a view to detecting variables that may hinder their effective contributions towards the management and control of COVID-19 outbreak in Nigeria.The study found that male veterinarians had significantly good knowledge (p=0.012, OR=0.157, CI=0.03-0.66) and attitude (OR=18.415, CI=1.45-5.16, P=0.011) towards COVID-19 than female counterparts. Similar results were also recorded regarding practices (OR=2.941, CI=1.03-8.36, P=0.043). Educational qualification was found to be significantly associated with attitude of veterinarians in respect of COVID-19 prevention (OR=0.473, CI=0.073-0.011, P=0.006). Thus, gender (male) was found to be independent predictors of good knowledge, attitude and practices regarding COVID-19. In addition, educational qualification was also found to be an independent predictor of attitude of veterinarians regarding COVID-19 control. Veterinarians generally had good knowledge about the epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of COVID-19. However, despite their knowledge, the level of willingness of veterinarians to support national response activities was still poor. This study advocated for a collaborative efforts (one-health) between medics and vets in tackling future pandemics/infectious diseases like COVID-19. In addition, since most vet knows the basics of infectious diseases like COVID-19, they can be deployed for national response activities. *Correspondence to: bekkyweka@gmail.com Article History Received: 26 Feb 2021 Accepted: 15 Jun 2021 1. INTRODUCTION Following the outbreak and report of pneumonia-like disease on the 31 st December, 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei Province of China, the global health community intensified efforts at all levels as it attempts to unravel the dynamics of this novel disease. A month later, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the disease a public health emergency of international concern (January 30th 2020) and termed the diseases “Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID- 19)” on 11 th February, 2020 (WHO, 2020) From that time, the disease had rapidly spread across the world to achieve a pandemic status; infecting more than 30 million people with a mortality in excess of 957,000 as at 20 st September, 2020 (Csse, 2020). Caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), COVID-19 virus or SARS-CoV-2 belongs to the family of Coronaviridae of the order Nidovirales. The virus has a large structure, with a single, plus-stranded RNA genome (Gorbalenya, et al., 2006, Peng, et al., 2020). A novel virus, SARS-CoV-2 was first isolated from three people with pneumonia or flu-like symptoms connected to the cluster of acute respiratory illness cases in Wuhan, Hubei Province in China (Zhu, et al., 2020). Coronaviruses are known to affect and have been identified in several