General Public Health Considerations for Responding to Animal Hoarding Cases

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• Personal Author:
  Bellay YM ; Brown CM ; Cantor FL ; Castrodale L ; Gibbins, John D. ; Headrick ML ; Leslie MJ ; MacMahon, Kathleen ; O'Quin JM ; Patronek GJ ; Silva RA ; Wright JC ; Yu DT
• Description:
  Animal hoarding is an under-recognized problem that exists in most communities and adversely impacts the health, welfare, and safety of humans, animals, and the environment. These guidelines address public health and worker safety concerns in handling situations where animal hoarding or other dense concentrations of animals have caused unhealthy and unsafe conditions. Because animal hoarding situations are often complex, a full response is likely to be prolonged and require a cross-jurisdictional multiagency effort. Each animal hoarding case has unique circumstances related to the types and numbers of animals involved, the physical structure(s) where they are being kept, and the health status of the animals, among other factors that must be taken into account in planning a response. Some general public health considerations and associated recommendations for personal protective equipment use are presented that apply to all cases, however. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Animals Emergency Responders Environmental Exposure Environmental Health Environmental Monitoring Environmental Pollution Law Enforcement Lighting Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Protective Clothing Public Health Safety

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• Keywords:
  Emergency-responders Environmental-contamination Environmental-exposure Environmental-factors Environmental-hazards Environmental-health Exposure-assessment Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Police-officers Protective-clothing Protective-equipment Public-health Sanitation

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• ISSN:
  0022-0892
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Alaska ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies ; EID - Education and Information Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  14-18
• Volume:
  72
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20036533
• Citation:
  J Environ Health 2010 Mar; 72(7):14-18
• Contact Point Address:
  Louisa Castrodale, Veterinary Epidemiologist, Alaska Division of Public Health, 3601 CSt., Suite 540, Anchorage, AK 99503
• Email:
  louisa.castrodale@alaska.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• NORA Priority Area:
  Services ; Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Environmental Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:185856beeb3c5bd8cc51d0fe69b1fc08e517a4ef03d0b45135bcd2dc7c0078dda5571ba15c9a2c7478738b4b13c4672ed081c63cc84397c88056ccf91f895bfd
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/187916/cdc_187916_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 2.58 MB ]