ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2020
Senegal's Grand Magal of Touba: Syndromic Surveillance during the 2016 Mass Gathering.
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- Temporal trends in respiratory and gastrointestinal infections at the Grand Magal of Touba: the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.New microbes and new infections · 2026Article
- [Identification of tick-borne borreliosis cases by qPCR from rapid malaria diagnostic tests during the Grand Magal of Touba in Senegal].Medecine tropicale et sante internationale · 2025Article
- [Use of genetic material extracted from rapid malaria diagnostic tests using PCR during the Grand Magal of Touba in Senegal].Medecine tropicale et sante internationale · 2025Article
- Respiratory tract infections at the Grand Magal de Touba: a seven-year study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Integrating vulnerability and hazard in malaria risk mapping: the elimination context of Senegal.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Reasons for consultations and afflicted body systems in rural areas of The Republic of the Congo: A cross-sectional study.PloS one · 2025Article
- Sacred journeys and pilgrimages: health risks associated with travels for religious purposes.Journal of travel medicine · 2024Review
- Syndromic surveillance during 2022 Uganda Martyrs' commemoration.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Syndromic surveillance system during mass gathering of Panchkroshi Yatra festival, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India.New microbes and new infections · 2023Article
- Syndromic Surveillance Systems for Mass Gatherings: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Health-related research publications on religious mass gatherings of Muslims: a bibliometric analysis (1980-2020).Tropical diseases, travel medicine and vaccines · 2022Article
- The Grand Magal of Touba was spared by the COVID-19 pandemic.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2021Article
- Pathogens associated with respiratory, gastrointestinal and febrile illness in patients consulting at Mbacke healthcare centre during the 2018 Grand Magal of Touba: A preliminary study.Travel medicine and infectious diseaseArticle
- The 2020 Grand Magal of Touba, Senegal in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.Travel medicine and infectious diseaseArticle
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Abstract
The Grand Magal of Touba (GMT) is an annual 1-day Muslim religious event that takes place in Touba in Senegal. The city of Touba swells from 800,000 to four million people during the GMT. All patients who attended one of the 154 dedicated medical care public healthcare structures of the medical region of Diourbel during the GMT were included in a cross-sectional survey from November 16 to November 21, 2016. Demographic, morbidity, and mortality data were collected on a daily basis using a standardized article form that allows data to be recorded in a free-text format. Data were obtained from a total of 20,850 healthcare encounters, and 30.9% patients were aged ≤ 15 years. The most frequent conditions were gastrointestinal and respiratory diseases. Most frequent gastrointestinal symptoms were abdominal and gastric pain, nausea and vomiting, and diarrhea, suggesting that most patients suffered gastroenteritis. The predominance of cough, rhinitis, influenza-like illness, and sore throat among patients with respiratory symptoms suggests that most patients suffered from upper respiratory tract infections. Other frequent symptoms were headaches and pain in various organs. Three percentage of patients were considered to have malaria, 29.8% of patients were prescribed antibiotics and 2.6% antimalarial drugs, and 1.5% of patients were hospitalized. Only one death was recorded. Preparedness of the medical infrastructure should target these syndromic features, in terms of diagnostic tools and specific treatments, including pediatric formulations. It is also essential to improve the quality and rapid availability of data to enable real-time analysis of medical events at the GMT and to implement a rapid response, if necessary.
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