TABLE 4.
Responses to Questions Assessing Concerns and Expectations Regarding an Avian Influenza Outbreak
| Question, response group | Response |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No, definitely not | No, probably not | Yes, probably | Yes, definitely | Don’t know | |
| Do you think bird flu will spread to people in the United States? | |||||
| Case patients (n = 44) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (6.8) | 18 (40.9) | 2 (4.6) | 21 (47.7) |
| Control subjects (n = 428) | 11 (2.6) | 82 (19.2) | 135 (31.5) | 16 (3.7) | 184 (43.0) |
| If bird flu comes to the United States, do you think you, or someone you care about will catch it? | |||||
| Case patients (n = 44) | 1 (2.3) | 8 (18.2) | 6 (13.6) | 0 (0.0) | 29 (65.9) |
| Control subjects (n = 424) | 23 (5.4) | 145 (34.2) | 47 (11.1) | 0 (0.0) | 209 (49.3) |
| If bird flu comes to the United States, do you think you, or someone you care about will die from it? | |||||
| Case patients (n = 44) | 2 (4.6) | 15 (34.1) | 5 (11.4) | 0 (0.0) | 22 (50.0) |
| Control subjects (n = 424) | 42 (9.9) | 150 (35.4) | 29 (6.8) | 1 (0.2) | 202 (47.6) |
| Do you think the United States is prepared to deal with bird flu in an outbreak right now? | |||||
| Case patients (n = 44) | 19 (43.2) | 20 (45.5) | 3 (6.8) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (4.5) |
| Control subjects (n = 425) | 112 (26.4) | 198 (46.6) | 48 (11.3) | 3 (0.7) | 64 (15.1) |
| If an outbreak occurred, do you think most people could get medicine to treat it if needed? | |||||
| Case patients (n = 44) | 7 (15.9) | 23 (52.3) | 7 (15.9) | 0 (0.0) | 7 (15.9) |
| Control subjects (n = 425) | 66 (15.5) | 161 (37.9) | 107 (25.2) | 5 (1.2) | 86 (20.2) |
NOTE. Data are no. (%) of respondents who selected each response.