Rural villagers and urban residents exposure to poultry in China.

Patterns of poultry exposure in rural and urban areas in China have not been systematically evaluated and compared. The objective of our study is to investigate patterns in human exposure to poultry in rural and urban China. We conducted a two-stage household-based clustered survey on population exp...

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Main Authors: Zhibin Peng, Peng Wu, Li Ge, Richard Fielding, Xiaowen Cheng, Weike Su, Min Ye, Ying Shi, Qiaohong Liao, Hang Zhou, Lei Zhou, Leilei Li, Jiabing Wu, Shunxiang Zhang, Zhangda Yu, Xiaomin Wu, Hanwu Ma, Jianhua Lu, Benjamin J Cowling, Hongjie Yu
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Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
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Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0095430&type=printable
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author Zhibin Peng
Peng Wu
Li Ge
Richard Fielding
Xiaowen Cheng
Weike Su
Min Ye
Ying Shi
Qiaohong Liao
Hang Zhou
Lei Zhou
Leilei Li
Jiabing Wu
Shunxiang Zhang
Zhangda Yu
Xiaomin Wu
Hanwu Ma
Jianhua Lu
Benjamin J Cowling
Hongjie Yu
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Li Ge
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Ying Shi
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Hanwu Ma
Jianhua Lu
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description Patterns of poultry exposure in rural and urban areas in China have not been systematically evaluated and compared. The objective of our study is to investigate patterns in human exposure to poultry in rural and urban China. We conducted a two-stage household-based clustered survey on population exposure to live/sick/dead poultry in Xiuning and Shenzhen. Half of the rural households (51%) in Xiuning raised poultry, mostly (78%) free-range. Around half of those households (40%) allowed poultry to stay in their living areas. One quarter of villagers reported having contact with sick or dead poultry. In Shenzhen, 37% urban residents visited live poultry markets. Among these, 40% purchased live poultry and 16% touched the poultry or cages during purchase. Our findings indicated that human exposure to poultry was different in rural and urban areas in China. This discrepancy could contribute to the observed differences in epidemiologic characteristics between urban and rural cases of influenza A(H7N9) and A(H5N1) virus infection.
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Li Ge
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Ying Shi
Qiaohong Liao
Hang Zhou
Lei Zhou
Leilei Li
Jiabing Wu
Shunxiang Zhang
Zhangda Yu
Xiaomin Wu
Hanwu Ma
Jianhua Lu
Benjamin J Cowling
Hongjie Yu
Rural villagers and urban residents exposure to poultry in China.
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