Table 3 Awareness of avian influenza prevention before and after intervention, Rajshahi and Chittagong villages, Bangladesh, 2009
Topics [Intervention messages] | Interviews before intervention (Na = 42) | Interviews after intervention (Na = 36) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Responses | # of interviews with response | (%) | Responses | # of interviews with response | (%) | |
Prevention [Sick poultry should be kept separate and away from healthy poultry or one’s self; sick poultry should not be bought or sold; poultry died from disease should be buried; nose and mouth should be covered well while handling sick and dead poultry and hands should be washed well after handling; sick poultry should not be slaughtered; if one has to slaughter sick poultry, one should: cover nose and mouth very well, stop children from coming near the slaughtering site, cover the blood-smeared slaughtering site with ash or dust and scrape off the soil from that place and bury, wash slaughtering tools well with soap or soda or ash and water; bury offal, skin, feathers, at the end, wash hands with soap or soda or ash and water by rubbing well] | Any prevention response | 8 | (19) | Any prevention response | 29 | (81) |
- Burning/culling | 6 | (14) | - Covering nose and mouth while slaughtering sick poultry/burying carcass | 27 | (75) | |
- Not consuming sick poultry/egg | 4 | (10) | - Burying offal, blood, carcasses | 27 | (75) | |
- Cooking/boiling poultry meat/egg well | 4 | (10) | - Separating sick poultry from healthy poultry and/or humans | 25 | (69) | |
- Handwashing with soap | 2 | (5) | - Not consuming/slaughtering sick poultry | 22 | (61) | |
- Burying carcass | 2 | (5) | - Washing hand after slaughtering or handling sick/dead poultry/eggs | 22 | (61) | |
- Not slaughtering/processing poultry | 1 | (2) | - Keeping children away | 13 | (36) | |
- Using mask | 1 | (2) | - Cleaning slaughtering site | 12 | (33) | |
- Vaccination | 1 | (2) | - Not selling sick poultry | 9 | (25) | |
- Not touching carcass with bare hand or using polythene to touch carcass for burying | 1 | (2) | - Cleaning slaughtering tools | 8 | (22) | |
- Not letting children to touch chicken and wash their hands with soap after touching | 1 | (2) | - Using polythene/gloves/piece of cloth to touch carcass/slaughter sick poultry | 6 | (17) | |
| Â | Â | - Cooking/boiling poultry meat well | 6 | (17) | ||
| Â | Â | Â | Burning/culling | 2 | (6) | |