Migrant Clinicians Network spoke with Jeff Bender, DVM, MS, DACVPM, about the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in dairies and what clinicians need to know. View some of the key moments of that interview here:
How Clinicians Can Prepare as the Situation Develops Signs and Symptoms Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Dairy Workers Don't Drink Unpasteurized Milk
This resource helps you address stigmatization by providing best practices for inhibiting and the actions to take when you encounter stigmatization when new infectious diseases and illness emerge.
Early in an outbreak, such as the 2009 H1N1 outbreak, groups of people, places, and animals can be singled out and will be at risk of being stigmatized by association with the threat this virus poses. Groups are stigmatized by an infectious disease when the risk of infection to others is not present or remote but the association of the risk is magnified by others for that population group, or place or animal.