What is the experience from previous mass gathering events? Lessons for Zika virus and the Olympics 2016.
Zumla, A;
McCloskey, B;
Bin Saeed, AA;
Dar, O;
Al Otabi, B;
Perlmann, S;
Gautret, P;
Roy, N;
Blumberg, L;
Azhar, EI;
+3 more...Barbeschi, M;
Memish, Z;
Petersen, E;
(2016)
What is the experience from previous mass gathering events? Lessons for Zika virus and the Olympics 2016.
International journal of infectious diseases, 47.
pp. 1-4.
ISSN 1201-9712
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2016.06.010
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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.
