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

Alimuddin Zumla | Zendy; Brian McCloskey | Zendy; Abdulaziz A. Bin Saeed | Zendy; Osman Dar | Zendy; B. Al Otabi | Zendy; S. Perlmann | Zendy; Philippe Gautret | Zendy; Nobhojit Roy | Zendy; L. Blumberg | Zendy; Esam I. Azhar | Zendy; Maurizio Barbeschi | Zendy; Ziad A. Memish | Zendy; Eskild Petersen | Zendy

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

Author(s) -

Alimuddin Zumla,

Brian McCloskey,

Abdulaziz A. Bin Saeed,

Osman Dar,

B. Al Otabi,

S. Perlmann,

Philippe Gautret,

Nobhojit Roy,

L. Blumberg,

Esam I. Azhar,

Maurizio Barbeschi,

Ziad A. Memish,

Eskild Petersen

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

international journal of infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.278

H-Index - 89

eISSN - 1878-3511

pISSN - 1201-9712

DOI - 10.1016/j.ijid.2016.06.010

Subject(s) - mass gathering , zika virus , outbreak , mass vaccination , geography , hepatitis a , poliomyelitis , medicine , virology , environmental health , vaccination , public health , hepatitis , virus , nursing

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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