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Course Module Outlines

Module 1: Overview

• Course Introduction
• Avian Flu Viruses
• History of H5N1 HPAI
• HPAI Transmission
• Risk of H5N1 HPAI to Humans
• Impacts of H5N1 HPAI
• Surveillance, Testing, and Reporting
• Coordination and Management
• Communications Planning

Module 2: Surveillance

• H5N1 HPAI Surveillance
• Sample size calculation
• Surveillance in poultry and captive populations
• Surveillance in wild birds

Module 3: Public Health and Worker Safety

• General public education and protection
• Poultry farm worker protection
• Backyard/smallholder owner protection
• Live-bird wet market worker protection
• Medical worker protection and patient protocol
• Public health team protection
• First responder protection

Module 4: Prevention and Response

• Prevention
• Response
• Recovery
• Scenarios
  • Smallholder Poultry Operations
  • Wet (Live Bird) Markets
  • Commercial Poultry Facilities
  • Zoological and Aviary Collections
  • Wildlife
• Biosecurity Planning
• Response Plans

Practical Session

• Packaging and shipping of a diagnostic sample
• Donning and doffing PPE
• Cloacal and oral cavity swabbing for samples (1 person, 2 person)
• Vaccinating a chicken
• Bleeding a chicken
• Safe slaughter and cleaning a chicken

To order any course materials, please contact David Bunn, dabunn@ucdavis.edu

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World Organization for Animal Health (OIE)

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

World Health Organization (WHO)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS)

USAID

National Wildlife Health Center (USGS-NWHC)

California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA)

CARE

US Geological Survey (USGS)