Volume 16, Number 10—October 2010
Research
Effectiveness of Personal Protective Equipment and Oseltamivir Prophylaxis during Avian Influenza A (H7N7) Epidemic, the Netherlands, 2003
Dennis E. te Beest
, Michiel van Boven, Marian E.H. Bos, Arjan Stegeman, and Marion P.G. Koopmans
, Michiel van Boven, Marian E.H. Bos, Arjan Stegeman, and Marion P.G. Koopmans
Table 8
Comparison of conjunctivitis and serologic result case definitions for number of infections and use of respirators and safety glasses during avian influenza A (H7N7) epidemic, the Netherlands, 2003*
| Use of respirator |
Use of safety glasses |
Conjunctivitis |
Serology |
|||
| Persons† |
Visits‡ |
Persons |
Visits |
|||
| Always | Always | 3/28 | 5/60 | 11/19 | 30/44 | |
| Sometimes | 7/25 | 16/76 | 12/19 | 38/53 | ||
| Not used |
7/38 |
14/65 |
19/27 |
32/45 |
||
| Sometimes | Always | – | – | – | – | |
| Sometimes | 4/25 | 13/84 | 10/18 | 40/62 | ||
| Not used |
5/28 |
12/62 |
10/22 |
19/45 |
||
| Not used |
Not used |
4/14 |
6/34 |
4/4 |
8/8 |
|
| Unknown | Unknown | 6/35 | 13/72 | 15/22 | 32/43 | |
*Data resulted from a survey conducted among poultry workers after the epidemic. Totals of respirator and safety glasses use can be derived by adding up the separate groups. –, no data in this group.
†No. infected persons/total no. persons.
‡No. visits by infected persons/total no. visits.
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