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

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

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 handl...

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Main Authors: A. Zumla, B. McCloskey, A.A. Bin Saeed, O. Dar, B. Al Otabi, S. Perlmann, P. Gautret, N. Roy, L. Blumberg, E.I. Azhar, M. Barbeschi, Z. Memish, E. Petersen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-06-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Mass gatherings
Hajj
Mela Kumba
Zika virus
Olympic games
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971216310943
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1201-9712
1878-3511

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