Abstract:
Objective To promote preventive and controlling ability to avian flu in poultry farms in Fengxian District, Shanghai.
Methods By cluster sampling, 38 poultry farms and 150 workers in Fengxian District were recruited. An intervention trial on avian flu prevention and control was performed and evaluated.
Results Before intervention, 38 poultry farms lack of preventive facilities and knowledge to avian flu. After the intervention, these farms provided prevention-oriented measurements and their workers had increased awareness of preventive knowledge, such as the awareness rates of avain symptom and precautions to contact with avain poultry had increased respectively from 24.00% to 79.33% and from 9.33% to 21.33%.
Conclusion It is efficient and necessary to provide avian flu prevention resources to poultry farm workers.