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 influenza, 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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Autores principales: 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.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7110488/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27321962
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2016.06.010
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author 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.
author_facet 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.
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description All previous experiences from different mass gathering show that vaccine preventable diseases is the most important infections like influenza, 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 Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro should not be cancelled. The number of visitors to the games is a tiny fraction (1%) of other visitors to Zika endemic countries and it will have no measurable effect on the risk of spreading Zika virus, if the games was cancelled.
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spelling pubmed-71104882020-04-02 What is the experience from previous mass gathering events? Lessons for Zika virus and the Olympics 2016 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. Int J Infect Dis Article All previous experiences from different mass gathering show that vaccine preventable diseases is the most important infections like influenza, 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 Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro should not be cancelled. The number of visitors to the games is a tiny fraction (1%) of other visitors to Zika endemic countries and it will have no measurable effect on the risk of spreading Zika virus, if the games was cancelled. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2016-06 2016-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7110488/ /pubmed/27321962 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2016.06.010 Text en © 2016 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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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.
What is the experience from previous mass gathering events? Lessons for Zika virus and the Olympics 2016
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7110488/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27321962
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2016.06.010
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