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众所周知，处理生家禽后要洗手，但下次当你驾驶在高速公路上，而前面是一辆装满鸡鸭的卡车时，你可能还得洗洗车。根据美国约翰·霍普金斯大学（Johns Hopkins University）科学家团队领导的一项研究，尾随这些活禽货物会大大增加人们接触禽类携带细菌的机会。相关研究发表在了第一期《感染与公共卫生杂志》（Journal of Infection and Public Health）上，该杂志发表关于传染病的流行病学、预防与控制的研究。在这项研究中，测试车跟随家禽运输车从农场行驶到屠宰场。在公路之旅结束后，研究人员发现，车窗……[查看全文]
Wash Car after Chickens Cross Road
We all know to wash our hands after handling raw poultry. But next time you've just cruised down the interstate behind a truck full of chickens or Thanksgiving turkeys, you might want to wash your car.Because a study led by a team of Johns Hopkins scientists finds that tailgating such feathered cargo can significantly increase your exposure to poultry-borne bacteria. The report appeared in the very first issue of "The Journal of Infection and Public Health," which will publish research on the epidemiology, prevention and control of infectious disease.In the study, test cars followed poultry trucks as they traveled from farm to slaughterhouse. After these road trips, researchers discovered that...[full transcript]
Rule, A.M., Evans, S.L. and Silbergeld, E.K. (2008a) ‘Food Animal Transport: A potential source of community exposures to health hazards from industrial farming (cafos)’, Journal of Infection and Public Health, 1(1), pp. 33–39.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jiph.2008.08.001
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