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; M. Barbeschi; Z. Memish; E. Petersen

doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2016.06.010

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, M. Barbeschi, Z. Memish, E. Petersen^*

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-4
Number of pages	4
Journal	International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Volume	47
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2016.06.010
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2016

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Hajj
Mass gatherings
Mela Kumba
Olympic games
Zika virus

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Zumla, A., McCloskey, B., Bin Saeed, A. A., Dar, O., Al Otabi, B., Perlmann, S., Gautret, P., Roy, N., Blumberg, L., Azhar, E. I., Barbeschi, M., Memish, Z., & Petersen, E. (2016). What is the experience from previous mass gathering events? Lessons for Zika virus and the Olympics 2016. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 47, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2016.06.010

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

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