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ArticleInternational journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases2016

What is the experience from previous mass gathering events? Lessons for Zika virus and the Olympics 2016.

A Zumla, B McCloskey, A A Bin Saeed, O Dar, B Al Otabi, S Perlmann, P Gautret, N Roy, L Blumberg, E I Azhar and 3 more

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Article in International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

A ZumlaDivision of Infection and Immunity, University College London, and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
B McCloskeyGlobal Health Department, Public Health England, London, UK.
A A Bin SaeedDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
O DarPublic Health England, London, UK.
B Al OtabiWHO Collaborating Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine, Office of the Deputy Minister for Preventive Medicine, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
S PerlmannDepartment of Microbiology, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA.
P GautretInfectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Unit, North Hospital, Marseille, France.
N RoyEnvironmental Health Resource Hub, School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Deonar, Mumbai, India.
L BlumbergNational Institute for Communicable Diseases, Division of Public Health Surveillance and Response, Sandringham, Johannesburg, South Africa.
E I AzharSpecial Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center and Medical Laboratory Technology Department, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
M BarbeschiWorld Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Z MemishMinistry of Health, College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
E PetersenInstitute of Clinical Medicine, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark; Department of Infectious Diseases, The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. Electronic address: eskild.petersen@gmail.com.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

All previous experiences from different mass gathering show that vaccine preventable diseases is the most important infections like influemza, hepatitis A, polio and meningitis. Three mass gathering held in Africa during the Ebola outbreak accepted participants from West Africa and was able to handle the theoretical risk without any incident. Therefore we believe that the Olympc games in Rio de Janeiro should not be canceled. The number of visitors to the games is a tine fraction (1%) of other visitors to Zika endemic con tries and it will have no measurable effect on the risk of spreading Zika virus, if the games was cancelled.

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Disease OutbreaksSportsTravelAfricaAfrica, WesternCrowdingFemaleHumansMaleRiskZika VirusZika Virus InfectionHajjMass gatheringsMela KumbaOlympic gamesZika virus

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PMID27321962
PMCPMC7110488

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