Table 1 Total number of informal interviews and observations used to explore different topics with informants in Rajshahi and Chittagong villages, Bangladesh, 2009

Awareness on avian influenza

42

N/A

36

N/A

Housing sick poultry

27

3

33

2

Selling/buying sick poultry

20

0

22

2

Disposing carcasses or offal/blood of sick poultry

46

6

45

7

Slaughtering sick poultry

42

6

49

8

Cleaning site/tools after slaughtering sick poultry

8

3

13

4

Hand hygiene after slaughtering/handling sick/dead poultry

9

6

16

9

Covering nose/mouth while slaughtering/handling sick/dead poultry

0

6

14

9

Keeping children away from slaughtering site

14

3

3

4