Open AccessKnowledge, attitudes, and poultry-handling practices of poultry workers in relation to avian influenza in India
Author(s) -
Sudhir C Kumar,
Naveen Ramesh,
Srinand Sreevatsan,
Bobby Joseph,
Prashanth Alle,
Kumar G. Belani,
Michael T. Osterholm
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the indian journal of occupational and environmental medicine/the indian journal of occupational and environmental medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1998-3670
pISSN - 0973-2284
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5278.116368
Subject(s) - biosecurity , influenza a virus subtype h5n1 , pandemic , poultry farming , population , highly pathogenic , demographics , veterinary medicine , environmental health , geography , socioeconomics , biology , covid-19 , disease , medicine , demography , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , ecology , virus , pathology , sociology
Avian influenza (AI) is a viral disease of domestic and wild birds. The recent pandemics caused by highly pathogenic AIA (H5N1) in domestic poultry is currently rated phase 3 by the World Health Organization on the pandemicalert scale.