Health experts call for better virus monitoring in abattoirs eNCA
"Bringing large numbers of people together from across a community, having them working on long shifts with plenty of opportunities for transmission, is likely to result in heightened risk," said Archie Clements, an epidemiology professor at Curtin University in Australia.
"The jobs are quite stressful, and the employees often come from backgrounds with high rates of smoking and other lifestyle factors that predispose to respiratory disease, so it is possible that this group is more susceptible than others", said Clements, who himself previously worked in aSlaughterhouses are not"unique" among assembly line employment in terms of overcrowding, explained Antoine Flahault, director of global health at the Institute of Geneva, in Switzerland.
The Centers for Disease Control estimated that at least 5,000 meat and poultry workers have contracted the virus in the US alone. In Germany, more than 90 cases were discovered in a Saxony slaughterhouse in recent days -- the latest in a series of flare-ups since April.
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