Application of a healthy food markets guide to two Indonesian markets to reduce transmission of “avian flu”
Gina Samaan, Ferra Hendrawati, Trevor Taylor, Tangguh Pitona, Dini Marmansari, Ratna Rahman, Kamalini Lokuge & Paul M Kelly
Volume 90, Number 4, April 2012, 295-300
Table 1. Comparison of poultry vendor knowledge, attitudes and practices before and after intervention to reduce transmission of A(H5N1) influenza virus in two poultry markets, Makassar, Indonesia, 2008–2009
| Control measure |
Before (n = 34) No. (%) |
After (n = 29) No. (%) |
P |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education and awareness | |||
| Aware that people can get sick from working with poultry | 8 (24) | 18 (62) | 0.002 |
| Practising slaughter of sick birds and sale of sick or dead birds | 5 (15) | 6 (21) | 0.533 |
| Education and awareness, monitoring, visual inspection | |||
| Able to identify three symptoms of avian influenza infection in chickens | 26 (76) | 27 (93) | 0.092 |
| Personal protective equipment | |||
| Wearing rubber bootsa | 22 (65) | 16 (55) | 0.441 |
| Wearing plastic apronsa | 5 (15) | 16 (55) | 0.001 |
| Cages and holding practices, cleaning | |||
| Cleaning cages daily | 28 (82) | 29 (100) | 0.027 |
| Cleaning | |||
| Using soap when cleaning chopping boards, knives and defeathering machines | 13 (38) | 18 (62) | 0.059 |
a Based on observation of poultry vendors.