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Volume 26, Number 5—May 2020

Research

Effectiveness of Live Poultry Market Interventions on Human Infection with Avian Influenza A(H7N9) Virus, China

Wei Wang1, Jean Artois1, Xiling Wang, Adam J. Kucharski, Yao Pei, Xin Tong, Victor Virlogeux, Peng Wu, Benjamin J. Cowling, Marius Gilbert2, and Hongjie Yu2Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: Fudan University School of Public Health, Shanghai, China (W. Wang, X. Wang, Y. Pei, X. Tong, H. Yu); Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium (J. Artois, M. Gilbert); London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK (A.J. Kucharski); École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France (V. Virlogeux); Cancer Research Center of Lyon, Lyon (V. Virlogeux); School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (V. Virlogeux, P. Wu, B.J. Cowling); Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Brussels (M. Gilbert)

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Figure 2

Estimated daily incidence rates in counties with various levels of live poultry market closures across waves of influenza A(H7N9) infections, by duration of closure, China, 2013–2017. A) Wave 1; B) wave 2; C) wave 3; D) wave 4; E) wave 5. Error bars indicate 95% CIs. Asterisks (*) above bars indicate statistically significant (p<0.05) differences between daily incidence rates and reference category (Ref.) rates. Duration categories: no closure during epidemic wave; permanent closure, permanen

Figure 2. Estimated daily incidence rates in counties with various levels of live poultry market closures across waves of influenza A(H7N9) infections, by duration of closure, China, 2013–2017. A) Wave 1; B) wave 2; C) wave 3; D) wave 4; E) wave 5. Error bars indicate 95% CIs. Asterisks (*) above bars indicate statistically significant (p<0.05) differences between daily incidence rates and reference category (Ref.) rates. Duration categories: no closure during epidemic wave; permanent closure, permanently closed within the epidemic wave or for the entire epidemic wave duration; long-period closure (>14 days within the epidemic wave [10,17]); short-period closure (<14 days within the epidemic wave); and recursive closure, whereby LPMs were closed for 1 or 2 day with a repetition of the closing over time (the closing might be implemented weekly, biweekly, or monthly).

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

2These authors are joint senior authors.

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