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ArticleTravel medicine and infectious disease

Australian Hajj pilgrims' perception about mass casualty incidents versus emerging infections at Hajj.

Amani S Alqahtani, Kaoruko Yamazaki, Wejdan H Alqahtani, Mohamed Tashani, Anita E Heywood, Robert Booy, Kerrie E Wiley, Harunor Rashid

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Article in Travel medicine and infectious disease. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Risk communication in mass gatherings: a scoping review.International journal of emergency medicine · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Amani S AlqahtaniNational Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS), The Children's Hospital at Westmead, New South Wales, Australia; School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Electronic address: amani.alqahtani@health.nsw.gov.au.
Kaoruko YamazakiSchool of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Wejdan H AlqahtaniKing Khalid University, School of Applied Medical Science, Abha, Saudi Arabia.
Mohamed TashaniNational Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS), The Children's Hospital at Westmead, New South Wales, Australia; The Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Anita E HeywoodSchool of Public Health and Community Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Robert BooyNational Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS), The Children's Hospital at Westmead, New South Wales, Australia; The Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, Sydney, Australia; WHO Collaborating Centre for Mass Gatherings and High Consequence/High Visibility Events, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
Kerrie E WileyNational Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS), The Children's Hospital at Westmead, New South Wales, Australia; School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Harunor RashidNational Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS), The Children's Hospital at Westmead, New South Wales, Australia; The Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, Sydney, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeIslamMass Casualty IncidentsTravelAdultAustraliaCommunicable Diseases, EmergingCross-Sectional StudiesHumansSaudi ArabiaEmerging diseasesHajjMass casualty incidentsMass gatheringsRisk perceptionStampedes

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PMID27856351
PMCPMC7128702

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