{"id":4202,"date":"2020-02-11T15:33:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T23:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4202"},"modified":"2021-02-19T15:54:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T23:54:33","slug":"a-qualitative-study-of-zoonotic-risk-factors-among-rural-communities-in-southern-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/11\/a-qualitative-study-of-zoonotic-risk-factors-among-rural-communities-in-southern-china\/","title":{"rendered":"A qualitative study of zoonotic risk factors among rural communities in southern China"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a qualitative evaluation of general zoonotic transmission risk factors in rural China, Li, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">et al.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> present information from predominantly agrarian communities. Interesting findings include:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dogs or cats kept for companionship, home protection or preventing rat infestations\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Poultry, pigs and cattle raised for meat consumption; animal waste sometimes used as crop fertilizer; seeking medical treatment for bites and scratches was uncommon\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vaccination coverage of domestic animals was low. Participants were informed about rabies but rarely other zoonotic illnesses.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While participants reported a decrease in wild animal hunting, trading or consumption activities, hunting or consumption of some wild animals (e.g. rodents, bats, civets, frogs, snakes and birds) still occurred<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recent infrastructure improvements and inspections of designated slaughter houses were recognized to have improved hygiene and sanitation conditions. Poultry slaughter and sale in wet markets remained a concern.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bat caves and roosts close to human dwellings were reported; wild animals among crops were observed.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mitigation opportunities through gun control policies, enforcement of wildlife protection laws were reported to have reduced wildlife hunting. Healthcare access to local government clinics was generally good. Access to government-provided free or low-priced vaccines for domestic animals was limited\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Li, et al. (Feb 10, 2020). A qualitative study of zoonotic risk factors among rural communities in southern China. International Health. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/inthealth\/ihaa001\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/inthealth\/ihaa001<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a qualitative evaluation of general zoonotic transmission risk factors in rural China, Li, et al. present information from predominantly agrarian communities. Interesting findings include: Dogs or cats kept for companionship, home protection or preventing rat infestations\u00a0 Poultry, pigs and cattle raised for meat consumption; animal waste sometimes used as crop fertilizer; seeking medical treatment&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/11\/a-qualitative-study-of-zoonotic-risk-factors-among-rural-communities-in-southern-china\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-4202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4203,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions\/4203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4202"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}