Mortality in workers in poultry slaughtering/processing plants: the Missouri poultry cohort study
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Mortality in workers in poultry slaughtering/processing plants: the Missouri poultry cohort study.
BACKGROUND Subjects who work in poultry slaughtering and processing plants have one of the highest human exposures to viruses that cause cancer in chickens and turkeys. It is not known whether these viruses cause cancer in humans also. Epidemiological studies investigating this issue are scarce. AIMS AND METHODS Mortality was studied during the period 1969-90 in a cohort of 7700 subjects who ...
متن کاملApplication of Medicinal Plants in Poultry Nutrition
Application of most antibiotic growth promoters as feed additives has been banned in a lot of countries due to cross-resistance against pathogens and residues in tissues. Therefore, scientists are searching for alternatives to antibiotics nowadays. Medicinal plant extracts are one of the alternatives that have anti-microbial and growth promoting effect on poultry. In this paper, the benefits of...
متن کاملPoultry diseases in Iran: an epidemiological study on different causes of mortality in broilers
Understanding the distributions of poultry diseases will help planning for disease control and prevention more effectively. Studies on poultry diseases in Iran are scarce. We investigated the incidence of mortality in broiler chicken flocks in Iran as part of a national project. Specifically, documents from September 2004 to November 2005 related to the mortality of broilers that were covered b...
متن کاملA pilot case-cohort study of liver and pancreatic cancers in poultry workers.
PURPOSE To test the hypothesis that exposure to poultry oncogenic viruses that widely occurs occupationally in poultry workers and in the general population, may be associated with increased risks of deaths from liver and pancreatic cancers, and to identify new risk factors. METHODS A pilot case-cohort study of both cancers within a combined cohort of 30,411 highly exposed poultry workers and...
متن کاملAntibody anti-H5N1 detection in poultry farmers and workers in poultry collection facilities in Indonesia, 2007
Aim Between July 2005 and May 2008, Indonesia reported 133 H5N1 confi rmed human cases with a case fatality proportion of 81%. Fifty-four percent of cases had a history of direct contact with poultry (chickens). Therefore, it is important to defi ne the detection of antibody of H5N1 among people who have intensive contact with poultry have been exposed to H5N1 viruses. Methods We collected sera...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1351-0711
DOI: 10.1136/oem.60.10.784