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Volume 19, Number 2—February 2013
Dispatch

Risk Perceptions for Avian Influenza Virus Infection among Poultry Workers, China

Qi Yu1, Linqing Liu1, Juan Pu1, Jingyi Zhao, Yipeng Sun, Guangnian Shen, Haitao Wei, Junjie Zhu, Ruifeng Zheng, Dongyan Xiong, Xiaodong Liu, and Jinhua LiuComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Author affiliations: Beijing General Station of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Beijing, People’s Republic of China (Q. Yu, J. Zhao, H. Wei, J. Zhu, X. Liu); China Agricultural University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China (J. Liu, L. Liu, J. Pu, Y. Sun); Beijing Laboratory Diagnosis Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Beijing, (G. Shen, R. Zheng); Pinggu Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing (D. Xiong); Shandong Animal Disease Control Center, Jinan, China (J. Liu)

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Table 1

Knowledge of avian influenza among 207 poultry workers, Beijing, China, 2009–2010*

Risk variable†
 OR‡
 95% CI
 p value
AIV infection through the respiratory tract
Age, y (<36/36–45/>45) –/1.97/1.11 –/0.66–6.11/0.27–4.46 –/0.18/0.87
Education (low/high) –/0.57 –/0.21–1.53 –/0.23
Job (chicken keepers/duck keepers)
 –/1.11
 –/0.44–2.79
 –/0.81
AIV infection through the gastrointestinal tract
Age (<36/36–45/>45) –/1.03/0.94 –/0.52–2.04/0.42–2.11 –/0.93/0.88
Education (low/high) –/0.49 –/0.26–0.91 –/0.02
Job (chicken feeders/duck feeders)
 –/1.52
 –/0.83–2.78
 –/0.14
AIV infection through mucosa
Age (<36/36–45/>45) –/0.85/0.64 –/0.43–1.68/0.28–1.44 –/ 0.61/0.24
Education (low/ high) –/0.51 –/0.27–0.95 –/0.02
Job (chicken feeders/duck feeders)
 –/1.58
 –/0.86–2.89
 –/0.11
Avoiding mixed housing with pigs
Age, y (<36/36–45/>45) –/2.54/2.69 –/1.17–5.6/1.11–6.6 –/0.01/0.02
Education (low/ high) –/0.21 –/0.10–0.44 –/<0.01
Job (chicken feeders/duck feeders)
 –/3.97
 –/1.96–8.14
 –/<0.01
Avoiding touching wild birds
Age (<36/36–45/>45) –/7.95/12.87 –/2.14–34.91/3.24–59.52 –/<0.01/<0.01
Education (low/high) –/0.00 –/0.00–0.11 –/<0.01
Job (chicken feeders/duck feeders)
 –/–
 –/–
 –/ <0.01
Forbidding eating and selling dead birds
Age, y (<36/36–45/>45) –/1.1/2.82 –/0.33–3.70/0.87–9.44 –/0.87/0.05
Education (low/high) –/0.05 –/0.01–0.22 –/<0.01
Job (chicken keepers/duck keepers)
 –/1.63
 –/0.63–4.33
 –/0.28
Improving vaccination coverage and quality
Age, y (<36/36–45/>45) –/0.79/0.93 –/0.33–1.90/0.34–2.52 –/0.57/0.87
Education (low/high)‡ –/0.14 –/0.04–0.44 –/<0.01
Job (chicken keepers/duck keepers) –/1.03 –/ 0.48–2.21 –/0.93

*OR, odds ratio; AIV, avian influenza virus; –, OR of variable itself is not calculated; boldface indicates that p value is significant.
†Low education indicates junior high school, elementary school, and below; high education indicates senior high school, university or college, and above.
‡ORs are calculated as follows: for different age groups, we calculated 2 ORs—OR1 = odds (<36 y)/odds (36–45 y), OR2 = odds (<36 y)/odds (>45 y); for different education groups, OR = odds (low)/odds (high); for different job groups, OR = odds (chicken keepers)/odds (duck keepers).

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1These authors contributed equally to this work.

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