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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