Zumla, A;
McCloskey, B;
Bin Saeed, AA;
Dar, O;
Al Otabi, B;
Perlmann, S;
Gautret, P;
... Petersen, E; + view all
(2016)
What is the experience from previous mass gathering events? Lessons for Zika virus and the Olympics 2016.
Int J Infect Dis
, 47
pp. 1-4.
10.1016/j.ijid.2016.06.010.
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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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | What is the experience from previous mass gathering events? Lessons for Zika virus and the Olympics 2016. |
| Location: | Canada |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijid.2016.06.010 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2016.06.010 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Hajj, Mass gatherings, Mela Kumba, Olympic games, Zika virus |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Infection and Immunity |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1504226 |
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