|
Knowledge about avian influenza of the study population |
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| Yes |
No |
Do not know |
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|
|
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| n |
% |
n |
% |
n |
% |
|
|
|
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| Definition a (contagious infection caused by virus that can affect all species of birds) |
351 |
52.5 |
318 |
47.5 |
0 |
- |
| Modes of transmission |
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| Animal-to-animal |
421 |
61.6 |
0 |
- |
262 |
38.4 |
| Animal-to-human |
469 |
68.7 |
0 |
- |
214 |
31.3 |
| No human-to-human |
632 |
92.5 |
0 |
- |
51 |
7.5 |
| Eating uncooked poultry |
551 |
80.7 |
75 |
11 |
57 |
8.3 |
| Eating uncooked eggs |
513 |
75.1 |
110 |
16.1 |
60 |
8.8 |
| Touching uncooked poultry |
556 |
81.4 |
74 |
10.8 |
53 |
7.8 |
| Touching uncooked eggs |
353 |
51.7 |
177 |
25.9 |
153 |
22.4 |
| Touching uncooked frozen poultry |
137 |
20.1 |
28 |
4.1 |
518 |
75.8 |
| Vehicles of transmission |
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| Poultry |
654 |
95.7 |
0 |
- |
29 |
4.3 |
| Birds |
510 |
74.7 |
0 |
- |
173 |
25.3 |
| Risk groups |
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| Poultry workers |
601 |
88 |
0 |
- |
82 |
12 |
| Butchers |
376 |
55.1 |
0 |
- |
307 |
44.9 |
| Hunters |
210 |
30.7 |
0 |
- |
473 |
69.3 |
| Veterinarians |
161 |
23.6 |
0 |
- |
522 |
76.4 |
|
|
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| Agree |
Uncertain |
Disagree |
||||
|
|
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| n |
% |
n |
% |
n |
% |
|
|
|
||||||
| Use of preventive measures |
||||||
| Preparing raw poultry and other foods using different knifes |
482 |
70.6 |
123 |
18 |
78 |
11.4 |
| Touching raw poultry with gloves |
382 |
55.9 |
191 |
28 |
110 |
16.1 |
| Wash hands with water and soap before and after preparing raw poultry |
302 |
44.2 |
258 |
37.8 |
123 |
18 |
| Cleaning cutting boards after preparing raw poultry |
298 |
43.6 |
221 |
32.4 |
164 |
24 |
| Using gloves and washing hands with soap before and after touching raw poultry meat |
236 |
34.6 |
123 |
18 |
324 |
47.4 |
|
a The number of participants responding to this question is 669 | ||||||
Di Giuseppe et al. BMC Infectious Diseases 2008 8:36 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-8-36 |
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