In the statement released by SPA, the Saudi health ministry said it was taking "all precautionary measures for persons who have been in contact with the infected people... and has taken samples from them to examine if they are infected".
Therefore, we conducted a population-based survey of persons' precautionary actions in response to a hypothetical influenza pandemic.
Employment has emerged as an important determinant of prospective precautionary actions; employed persons were less likely to report that they would take preventive actions.
In general, individual characteristics such as age, sex, self-reported influenza vaccination, and health status had little effect on reported precautionary measures (although younger persons were less likely to avoid places of entertainment and more likely to take leave from work).
Faced with an epidemic of an infectious disease, persons may take precautionary actions to try to reduce their risk.
The risk of acquiring an infectious disease may stimulate persons to take precautionary actions to try to reduce this risk as they perceive it.
To overcome this gap, we conducted a population-based survey in 8 regions (5 European countries and 3 east Asian regions) to estimate whether persons might take precautionary actions during an influenza pandemic, the extent of such behavior, and factors that might influence it.
Univariate analysis results suggested a statistically significant difference between regions in terms of proportions of persons who would adopt precautionary actions in case of a hypothetical influenza outbreak (Table 3).
Research on public reaction to previous outbreaks has shown that persons may take misjudged precautionary actions (e.g., avoid places and activities that bear low risk for infection, avoid healthcare facilities for fear of infection, refuse to comply with quarantine efforts) that may contribute to the pandemic's adverse economic effect (8 ).
Rather then blame the person for being loud, take precautionary steps to soften the loudness yourself.
Our results suggest that large numbers of persons would try to take precautionary measures to reduce their risk of acquiring pandemic influenza.
