biosecurity training module 2 do not bring avian influenza to the site
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Avian Influenza Exposures Direct or close contact with birds located outside of the site where you work – Owning birds – Entering a poultry house or close proximity to a poultry house located at another site Center for Food Security and Public Health, Iowa State University, 2015TRANSCRIPT
Biosecurity TrainingModule 2
Do NOT Bring Avian Influenza to the Site
Lesson Objectives• List situations in which employees
may come into contact with avian influenza
• Describe ways to minimize the risk of avian influenza spread to the site
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Avian Influenza Exposures• Direct or close contact with birds
located outside of the site where you work– Owning birds – Entering a poultry
house or close proximity to a poultry house located at another site
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Avian Influenza Exposures• Direct contact with birds located
outside of the site where you work– Exhibitions, auction markets,
sales, processing plants and swap meets
– Petting zoos where birds are kept
– Duck, turkey, goose or pheasant hunting
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Avian Influenza Exposures
• Direct contact with sites where live or dead poultry have been– Rendering plants or dead poultry
collection and disposal sites– Areas where poultry transport trucks or
rendering trucks have driven or parked
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Avian Influenza Exposures• International travel
– Threat level varies according to avian influenza disease status of the country and locations visited within the country
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Avian Influenza Exposures• Consultants/service personnel
– Anyone who enters a farm should be informed of, and understand, biosecurity expectations and protocols
– Visitors sign and date a logbook• Declare date of last contact with birds• State that they have showered and changed
clothes since last contact
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Avoid Carrying Virus to the Site• Arrive at work having previously
showered• Wear clean clothing or coveralls
and footwear to the site
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Avoid Carrying Virus to the Site• After showering and changing into
clean clothes and footwear, do not interact with poultry including wildlife prior to arrival at the site
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Avoid Carrying Virus to the Site• Employees and visitors
– Park vehicles in a designated area away from poultry barns
– Ensure that the interior of the vehicle does not become contaminated
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Avoid Carrying Virus to the Site• All equipment and other objects that
cross to the poultry side of the LOS– Must be cleaned and disinfected
OR– Come from a known
clean source– Leave valuables such as jewelry at home
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Avoid Carrying Virus to the Site• Stay home from work if you are ill• Don’t spread disease
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Moving Between Sites• Minimize people movement between
sites• Reduce risk when moving between
sites– Take a shower and change into clean
clothes or coveralls and footwear prior to continuing to next site
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Next StepsProceed to Biosecurity Training Module 3:
Perimeter Buffer Area
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