Media Usage by Poultry Farmers in the Control of Avian Influenza in Lagos State, Nigeria

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-46
Author(s):  
Soji Alabi
Keyword(s):  
Avian Influenza ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Lagos State ◽  
Poultry Farmers

scholarly journals A Comparative Analysis of Risk Perception and Coping Behaviors among Chinese Poultry Farmers Regarding Human and Poultry Infection with Avian Influenza

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (20) ◽  
pp. 3832 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Cui ◽  
Feifei Wang ◽  
Linda Dong-Ling Wang ◽  
Chengyun Pan ◽  
Jun Ke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Avian Influenza ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Human Infection ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Coping Behaviors ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Poultry Farmers ◽  
And Coping

Poultry farmers face a dual risk when mutant avian influenza (AI) virus exhibits zoonotic characteristics. A/H5N1 and A/H7N9 are two principal strains of the AI virus that have captured public attention in recent years, as they have both been reported and can infect poultry and humans, respectively. Previous studies have focused either on poultry farmers’ risk perception and biosecurity preventive behaviors (BPBs) against A/H5N1 infection with poultry, or on their risk perception and personal protective behaviors (PPBs) against human infection with A/H7N9, even though these two strains often appear simultaneously. To bridge this research gap, a survey (N = 426) was conducted in the Chinese provinces of Jiangsu and Anhui to assess risk perception and coping behaviors adopted by poultry farmers facing the dual risk of these two viral strains. Paired sample t-tests revealed that farmers’ perceived risk of poultry infection with A/H5N1 was significantly higher than their perceived risk of human infection with A/H7N9, and that their reported frequency of BPBs against A/H5N1 was significantly higher than the frequency of PPBs against A/H7N9. Moreover, farmers were less familiar with AI infection in human beings compared to that in poultry, but they felt a higher sense of control regarding human AI infection. Multivariate regression analyses showed that farm size and perceived risks of both human and poultry infection with AI were positively associated with BPBs and PPBs. The findings of this research suggest that a campaign to spread knowledge about human AI infection among poultry farmers is needed, and that a policy incentive to encourage large-scale poultry farming could be effective in improving implementation of BPBs and PPBs.

scholarly journals Avian Influenza and Employment Decisions of Poultry Farmers in the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassan Ishaq Ibrahim ◽  
Hussaini Iliyasu ◽  
Hussaini Yusuf Ibrahim ◽  
Napoleon D. Saingbe
Keyword(s):  
Avian Influenza ◽  
Employment Decisions ◽  
Poultry Farmers

scholarly journals Biosecurity challenges in the control of avian influenza in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 150-157
Author(s):  
S.I. Ijoma ◽  
E.R. Agusi ◽  
V.I. Ifende ◽  
O.H. Osemeke ◽  
V.T. Columba
Keyword(s):  
Avian Influenza ◽  
One Health ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Highly Pathogenic ◽  
Poultry Farmers ◽  
The One ◽  
Live Bird

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) has a devastating impact on the economy especially the poultry industry and it jeopardizes food security and public health. The disease which was first reported in Nigeria in 2006, re-occurred in 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019. Inspite of the efforts the federal government has put into eradicating Avian Influenza in the country, the re-occurrence of the disease points to challenges of control efforts by stakeholders. Biosecurity challenges confronting poultry farmers and live bird market operators were implicated in new outbreaks and spread of HPAI. A cross-sectional study was carried out by administering open ended questionnaires to poultry farmers and live bird marketers in 12 States that shared boundaries with States affected by HPAI in 2019. Using the thematic style of qualitative analysis and MS Excel 2016, data and information with common denominators and pattern were collated and grouped. The One Health approach was adopted for this study. This was achieved by evaluating the knowledge of the stakeholders on the spread of Avian Influenza (AI), the biosecurity challenges they faced, their recommended solutions and new preventive or control measures they were willing to implement in order to achieve biosecurity against AI outbreak. The live bird marketers' responses showed their major challenge to be poor commitment to implementing already known biosecurity rules (22%), followed by unavailability of funds (13%) and sanitation problems. The poultry farmers struggled with lack of funds for maintenance (32%), and lack of compliance to biosecurity by farm attendants (24%). Both groups jointly recommended alleviating strategies such as the improvement of stakeholder education, supportive financing and the strengthening of animal health legislations. These new insights would benefit the formulation and implementing effective probiosecurity strategies for the control of avian influenza. Keywords: Avian influenza, biosecurity, one health, poultry farms, Nigeria

scholarly journals Seroprevalence of avian influenza A/H5N1 among poultry farmers in rural Indonesia

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. e133 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Robert - Du Ry van Beest Holle ◽  
V. Setiawaty ◽  
M. Kivi ◽  
K. Pangesti ◽  
A. Bouma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Avian Influenza ◽  
Influenza A ◽  
Poultry Farmers
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