Problems of work hygiene and occupational pathology in industrial poultry breeding farms
Eglite, M.E.; Kapitonova, M.E.; Karpachevska, S.I.; Farbtukh, T.A.; Khintsenberg, I.A.
Gigiena Truda i Professional'nye Zabolevaniya (2): 3-6
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0016-9919 PMID: 1829056 Document Number: 370920
The major hazardous factors of the labour conditions in modern poultry farms are presented by dust mixtures including both vegetable and organic substances, biologically active substances and microorganisms, gaseous products, as well as unfavourable microclimate conditions and physical overload. Detailed medical examinations of poultry farmers revealed dependence of respiratory and pulmonary diseases, cardiovascular and nervous disorders on the labour conditions, the major etiologic factor being such allergens as feathers, down, blood serum, poultry excrements, bacteria and fungi.