Megacity-centric mass mobility during Eid holidays: a unique concern for infectious disease transmission in Bangladesh

Human mobility, particularly during certain festivals in rapidly growing megacities in low- and middle-income countries, has critical implications in infectious diseases surveillance and preparedness. In this perspective, we present the interesting case of Dhaka megacity, the capital of Bangladesh w...

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Autor principal: Hossain, Mohammad Sorowar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8943509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35331341
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-022-00417-4
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description Human mobility, particularly during certain festivals in rapidly growing megacities in low- and middle-income countries, has critical implications in infectious diseases surveillance and preparedness. In this perspective, we present the interesting case of Dhaka megacity, the capital of Bangladesh with a population of over 20 million. In recent times, three massive infectious disease outbreaks in Dhaka (chikungunya, dengue and COVID-19) coincided with Muslim religious Eid festivals. From a public health standpoint, it is very important to share this information with the international community to fight against emerging infectious diseases around the world.
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spelling pubmed-89435092022-03-24 Megacity-centric mass mobility during Eid holidays: a unique concern for infectious disease transmission in Bangladesh Hossain, Mohammad Sorowar Trop Med Health Letter to the Editor Human mobility, particularly during certain festivals in rapidly growing megacities in low- and middle-income countries, has critical implications in infectious diseases surveillance and preparedness. In this perspective, we present the interesting case of Dhaka megacity, the capital of Bangladesh with a population of over 20 million. In recent times, three massive infectious disease outbreaks in Dhaka (chikungunya, dengue and COVID-19) coincided with Muslim religious Eid festivals. From a public health standpoint, it is very important to share this information with the international community to fight against emerging infectious diseases around the world. BioMed Central 2022-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8943509/ /pubmed/35331341 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-022-00417-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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title_full Megacity-centric mass mobility during Eid holidays: a unique concern for infectious disease transmission in Bangladesh
title_fullStr Megacity-centric mass mobility during Eid holidays: a unique concern for infectious disease transmission in Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed Megacity-centric mass mobility during Eid holidays: a unique concern for infectious disease transmission in Bangladesh
title_short Megacity-centric mass mobility during Eid holidays: a unique concern for infectious disease transmission in Bangladesh
title_sort megacity-centric mass mobility during eid holidays: a unique concern for infectious disease transmission in bangladesh
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8943509/
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