Volume 21, Number 10—October 2015
Research
Effect of Live Poultry Market Closure on Avian Influenza A(H7N9) Virus Activity in Guangzhou, China, 2014
Table 1
Market characteristic | Live poultry markets |
Dressed poultry market | |
---|---|---|---|
Retail | Wholesale | ||
Source of poultry | Wholesale market | Backyard or large farms | Wholesale market |
Volume of poultry stock | Small | Large | Small |
Live poultry sold | Yes | Yes | No |
Size, m2 | 60/50/50† | 3,000 | 25 |
No. poultry stalls | 6/5/5† | 67 | 5 |
Approximate no. poultry traded/day | 206/285/112† | 28,640 | 190 |
On-site slaughtering |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Available sampling sites | |||
Poultry cage | Yes | Yes | No |
Defeathering machine | Yes | Yes | No |
Chopping board | Yes | No | Yes |
Processing table | Yes | No | Yes |
Bucket holding poultry meat | No | Yes | No |
Wastewater | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Poultry drinking water |
No |
Yes |
No |
*Three retail LPMs, 1 wholesale LPM, and 1 DPM were randomly selected for study from 77 wet markets in Panyu district, where enhanced surveillance was implemented. †Data are for the 3 retail markets. |
1These first authors contributed equally to this article.
2These senior authors contributed equally to this article.
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