Spread of avian influenza among poultry specialists in England during winter 2022/23: National poultry housing order and environmental drivers.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To examine the impact of the national poultry housing order the UK government introduced on 7 November 2022 on the spreading of the avian influenza virus among poultry premises.

Methods

A longitudinal design with 15 weeks of infected poultry specialist incidence rates per 100 poultry specialists during the 2022/23 winter for 8 English regions. A multilevel regression model was used to analyse repeated measurements. Time was level-1 unit and regions level-2 unit resulting in 120 observations. Random intercept models included interactions between housing order and weekly infected wild birds, poultry density, or weekly average temperatures divided into terciles. In models where these variables were not included as an interaction term they were introduced as confounders.

SUBMITTER: Tammes P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10954017 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature