Volume 16, Number 10—October 2010
Research
Effectiveness of Personal Protective Equipment and Oseltamivir Prophylaxis during Avian Influenza A (H7N7) Epidemic, the Netherlands, 2003
Dennis E. te Beest
, Michiel van Boven, Marian E.H. Bos, Arjan Stegeman, and Marion P.G. Koopmans
, Michiel van Boven, Marian E.H. Bos, Arjan Stegeman, and Marion P.G. KoopmansTable 3
Number of infections and use of respirator and safety glasses during avian influenza A (H7N7) epidemic, on the basis of combined conjunctivitis and serology-based case definition, the Netherlands, 2003*
| Respirator used | Safety glasses used | No. persons |
No. visits |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infected | Total | By infected persons | Total | |||
| Always | Always | 1 | 19 | 3 | 44 | |
| Sometimes | 5 | 19 | 13 | 53 | ||
| Not used |
4 |
27 |
8 |
45 |
||
| Sometimes | Always | – | – | – | – | |
| Sometimes | 3 | 17 | 11 | 58 | ||
| Not used |
2 |
22 |
3 |
45 |
||
| Not used |
Not used |
3 |
4 |
4 |
8 |
|
| Unknown | Unknown | 1 | 22 | 1 | 43 | |
*Data resulted from a survey conducted among poultry workers after the epidemic. –, no data in this group.
