Market scenarios in Vientiane City

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Market scenarios in Vientiane City

• Live bird trading
• Poor Market facilities infrastructure
• No zoning of stalls selling poultry products
• Mixture of poultry types
• Poor hygiene and sanitation in the stalls selling
  dressed poultry

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Backyard Poultry Slaughter
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Situation

• Selling of Live birds in the market
• Considerable volume of poultry trade
• Market is popular with local community
• Market has many hygiene sanitary problems
• Good response from market managers

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Risk Exposure to AI

• Possible sources of exposure
• Direct exposure to the infective material from
  the live birds (eg. faecal matter, nasal
  secretions, feathers)
• Indirect exposure via contaminated environment
  (dust, water), human traffic, flies and other
  vectors, and
• Offals from the evisceration of the dressed
  carcasses
• People who are at risk include
• Transport drivers
• Laborers
• Vendors
• Buyers

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Surveyed by the Wet market group

• Respondents No.of people
• Transport drivers 18
• Laborers 35
• Market vendors 10
• Buyers 35

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Recommendations of Wet Market Working Group

• Provide technical assistance and advocacy on the
  following matters
• Improvements in environment, layout and facility
  requirements
• Formulate Market policies guidelines for risk
  reduction
• Promote awareness education to relevant
  stakeholders with IEC materials