Knowledge of risk and self-protection practices and the degree of influenza hazard from live poultry sales.

Authors
Category Primary study
JournalHong Kong medical journal = Xianggang yi xue za zhi
Year 2009
1. Perceptions of risk from buying live chickens were moderate, but sickness anxieties did not predict buying or touching habits. 2. Buying was strongly predicted by the erroneous belief that cooking is the best means of protection from avian influenza. Health education groups seeking to increase preventive practices to control possible avian influenza outbreaks need to learn from this.
Epistemonikos ID: e424569d3c55261e0e93e29c1be0b9a45044f8b1
First added on: Nov 24, 2021