H5N1 Avian Flu:
Animal Health
Avian Influenza 101
FAO Frequently Asked Questions about Avian Influenza
USAID
Frequently Asked Questions – Avian Influenza
in Birds
USDA Fact Sheet for Poultry Producers in the USA
Fact
Sheet: What We Need to Know About Bird Flu – from
AED
GRAIN’s
page on H5N1 and small-scale farmers
Surveillance
The
World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) AI outbreak update
OIE provides a daily update of the most current and reliable information concerning
documented outbreaks of AI throughout the world.
FAO
Surveillance Maps
The FAO’s Emergency Prevention Center maintains bi-weekly
updated maps of newly reported Avian Influenza outbreaks. Their site
also includes a cumulative map of where Avian Influenza has been identified
in bird populations to date.
Humanitarian
Early Warning System Avian Flu site
An excellent collection of information from HEWS, including
links to most everyone’s documents and the latest news extracts.
Promedmail
The International Society for Infectious Disaseses
maintains this system, providing constant email information on disease
outbreaks, using varied sources to provide critical and breaking information
to scientists, physicians, epidemiologists, and public health professionals.
FAO
Guiding Principles for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Surveillance
and Diagnostic Networks in Asia
Key Messages Regarding Avian Influenza
FAO key messages: "Protect Poultry - Protect People
Provides key messages the FAO is recommending for different audiences of people who relate directly to animals. Divided into animal-to-animal and animal-human sections, and further by target audiences.
USAID Key Messages on Prevention and Control of Animal-to-Animal
Transmission of Avian Influenza
Core Communication Messages: Avian Influenza
An outline of communication messages related to the Avian Flu (Bird
Flu) from various international and regional sources. Organized according
to the following categories: Preventive Messages, No Outbreak; Outbreak
Areas; Poultry Industry; and Veterinarians
Advice
for People Living in Areas Affected by Bird Flu – WHO
Vietnam
Essential
Facts and Key Messages, from Vietnam (Report
in PDF format)
Report of a November 2005 workshop in
Vietnam with an array of technical experts to further develop an Information,
Communication, & Education and Behavior
Change frameworks. Emerged with 3 Essential Facts and 4 Key Messages
Bird
Flu: Communicating the Risk
Builds on the extensive work done by
Peter Sandman and Jody Lanard, distilling their lessons down into 10
critical points when talking to the public about avian and human influenza.
Detailed publications can be found at: http://www.psandman.com/indxpand.htm
Communications and Behavior Change Tools for
Avian Influenza
Pamphlet: Bird Flu: What You Need to Know and Do
A 2-page WHO pamphlet with 10 illustrated steps.
Preventing Bird Flu: Precautions poultry farm workers should take
A one-page WHO flyer that lays out 3 simple steps.
UNICEF Posters:
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey
Thailand (English), Arabic, and Farsi
Pamphlet: Bird Flu: What you need to know and do
This 2 page WHO pamphlet provides 10 tips for preventing
AI with pictures demonstrate
each tip.
“What
We Can Do to Protect Our Flocks from Bird Flu” and “What
We Can Do to Protect Ourselves from Bird Flu”: Posters
Handling sick birds; Handwashing;- from Thailand
Food Safety; How the Disease Spreads: Posters in Arabic
Six Steps to Avoid Bird Flu: Poster
Zandi’s
Song
An educational book for young people and accompanying
Teacher’s
Guide, designed by AED for use in East Africa, to educate about avian
influenza, preventing animal transmission, and backyard control measures.
Pamphlet: Preventing Bird Flu: Some Questions and Answers
This 2 page WHO pamphlet acts as a sort of “FAQ” on the avian flu.
Knowledge-Attitudes-Practices
Study of Small Holder Poultry Raising Farmers in Response to Avian
Influenza
A study by CARE Vietnam and Quality Life Promotion
(LIFE) Center of the practices of smallholder poultry farmers in
Vietnam. Served as the basis for CARE’s development of its
local programming. How
to Recognize and Prevent Avian Influenza in Poultry and Humans
An
extremely user-friendly, full-color, picture-laden guide produced by
CARE Vietnam that has three major sections: 1) How to Recognize Avian
Influenza Infection in Your Poultry; 2) How to Prevent Your Poultry From
Becoming Infected with the Avian Influenza Virus; and 3) How to Prevent
Humans From Becoming Infected with Avian Influenza
Healthy
Poultry, Happy People - CARE Vietnam TV Spots (view
other CARE Vietnam TV Spot)
These CARE Vietnam TV spots – in Vietnamese with English subtitles – deliver
simple messages about avian influenza. The first, the dangers of HPAI
and how it is transmitted. The second, how to avoid spreading avian influenza
and how to report it.
Flyer for Dissemination to Poultry Owners (CARE Ethiopia)
NGO-oriented and Detailed Tools for Avian
Influenza
How to Recognize and Prevent Avian Influenza in Poultry and Humans
An extremely user-friendly, full-color, picture-laden guide produced
by CARE Vietnam that has three major sections: 1) How to Recognize Avian
Influenza Infection in Your Poultry; 2) How to Prevent Your Poultry From
Becoming Infected with the Avian Influenza Virus; and 3) How to Prevent
Humans From Becoming Infected with Avian Influenza
AI Field Manual for Paraprofessionals
A guide for veterinary paraprofessionals to help
poultry smallholders better prevent and control Avian Flu. By the FAO/Vietnam
Ministry of Animal Health / Agronomes & Vétérinaires Sans Frontières
A Manual for Improving Biosecurity in the Food Supply Chain: Focus on Live Animal Markets – WHO
This manual has information that can be used for to create messages on safe techniques for selling, buying and transporting poultry. It also includes good suggestions for how markets should be set up and maintained to prevent the spread of the virus. Heavily illustrated.
Online
Course: Preparedness & Community
Response to Pandemics
This online introductory course from SUNY Albany Centre for Public Health Preparedness
on pandemic influenza aims to help the learner understand why this virus is capable
of producing worldwide outbreaks.
Poultry-handling Practices during Avian Influenza Outbreak, Thailand
A joint knowledge-attitudes-practices study was conducted by CDC and
the Ministry of Public Health during an outbreak. It suggests that public
campaigns can be effective at educating rural populations, but renewed
efforts are needed to find practical solutions that will induce behavioral
change.
OSHA Guidance
for Farm Workers and Animal Handlers
(in
InterAction committee space)
From the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), in turn summarized
from WHO and CDC, here are 6 steps to protect farm workers and animal handlers
from H5N1 avian influenza.
Disease
Cards for avian influenza (clearer,
but only HTML) (in
PDF, for easy printing)
Heifer
International Avian Influenza Tech Sheet
A Heifer tech
sheet that explains basic information about AI, where to get more
info, and the basic response to avian influenza outbreaks in poultry.
Keeping
Village Poultry: A technical manual on small-scale poultry production (English)
(French)
This
very user-friendly manual by the Network for Smallholder Poultry
Development tries to gather existing knowledge on how to improve
village poultry production systems with relatively few inputs. The
manual deals with improved free-range systems, but not confined poultry
rearing, sometimes also called small-scale industrial poultry production.
Includes a section on Diseases and Health Management.
6 steps to backyard biosecurity for your birds
Designed
by the USDA for US producers
Technical Information
World Organization for Animal Health
Includes extensive information, recommendations, guidelines, and technical
data, especially designed for governments and veterinary services, to
prevent, identify, and combat avian influenza in the bird population.
Disease
Cards for avian influenza (clearer,
but only HTML) (in PDF for easy printing)
Avian
Influenza (Bird Flu): Agricultural and Wildlife Considerations
A very helpful CIDRAP overview of the disease, with a very helpful overview
of clinical features in different birds.
Disinfectants
to use against AI
“Fowl
play: The poultry industry's central role in the bird flu crisis”
An article from GRAIN that challenges the conventional wisdom that backyard farms
are to blame for the incubation and spread of H5N1. Available in French, Spanish,
and German.
Australian
Veterinary Emergency Plan for Avian Influenza
A highly technical
and detailed draft of the proposed Australian veterinary response to
AI. Includes major technical sections on aetiology & pathogeneity,
diagnostic criteria, resistance and immunity, and epidemiology. Also
outlines the policies and response.
FAO Recommendations on the Prevention, Control and Eradication of Highly
Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in Asia
This FAO Position Paper is still the definitive guide on outbreak control.
Avian Influenza: food safety issues
This WHO page has links to several documents dealing with the food
safety issues surrounding AI.
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