Live poultry exposures, Hong Kong and Hanoi, 2006.

Emerg Infect Dis

Department of Community Medicine and Unit for Behavioural Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China.

Published: July 2007

Since 1997, the largest epidemic of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) ever recorded has caused 172 human and several billion bird deaths. Recently administered questionnaires determined that live poultry exposures have declined by approximately 63% in Hong Kong since 2004 and that, in Vietnam, domestic backyard exposures to poultry are likely more important than retail exposures.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2878218PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1307.061031DOI Listing

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