Xuzhou Poultry Bird Protection Guide for Poultry 4 Hours

On April 25th, the Xuzhou Agricultural Committee stated that the guidelines for personal protection and disinfection of H7N9 bird flu from poultry workers will be issued from the very beginning to guide the city’s poultry breeding, transportation, sales, slaughter, and other personnel to perform personal protection and environmental disinfection.

It is understood that all poultry workers entering and leaving the poultry farm must change their clothes; medical masks should be replaced every 4 hours of use, and should be promptly replaced in case of contamination or moisture; persons exposed to infected poultry or suspected farms are advised to inoculate the current WHO Recommended influenza vaccine to avoid simultaneous human and bird flu infections; regularly sterilize poultry sheds, poultry farm environment, utensils, drinking water, etc., scale farms are sterilized at least twice a week, and free-range farmers are sterilized at least once a week Poultry slaughter and kill poultry waste in a timely manner, disinfection time is 60 minutes.