Open AccessHealth risks during the Cricket World Cup in the Caribbean: surveillance and assessment in the French départements
Author(s) -
Collective Editorial team
Publication year - 2007
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 9999-1233
DOI - 10.2807/esw.12.10.03151-en
Subject(s) - cricket , mass gathering , geography , public health , event (particle physics) , caribbean island , political science , history , environmental health , advertising , medicine , business , biology , zoology , ecology , physics , quantum mechanics , nursing
The ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC) is the world’s third largest sporting event. (...) As with any mass gathering, there is an added public health risk [1]. Some of the visitors are coming from countries where infectious diseases are either endemic or capable of creating an epidemic.